Schedule a message in Rabbitmq - docker

Question

I'm trying to follow the official tutorial, but also adding the possibility to delay/schedule a message in RabbitMQ. I've my setup running in docker with rabbitmq:3-management-alpine and I've been trying to set the x-delay header, but messages still get sent instantly.
send.go
package main
import (
"context"
"log"
"time"
amqp "github.com/rabbitmq/amqp091-go"
)
func failOnError(err error, msg string) {
if err != nil {
log.Panicf("%s: %s", msg, err)
}
}
func main() {
conn, err := amqp.Dial("amqp://guest:guest#localhost:5672/")
failOnError(err, "Failed to connect to RabbitMQ")
defer conn.Close()
ch, err := conn.Channel()
failOnError(err, "Failed to open a channel")
defer ch.Close()
q, err := ch.QueueDeclare(
"hello", // name
false, // durable
false, // delete when unused
false, // exclusive
false, // no-wait
nil, // arguments
)
failOnError(err, "Failed to declare a queue")
ctx, cancel := context.WithTimeout(context.Background(), 5*time.Second)
defer cancel()
body := "Hello World!"
err = ch.PublishWithContext(ctx,
"", // exchange
q.Name, // routing key
false, // mandatory
false, // immediate
amqp.Publishing{
Headers: map[string]interface{}{
"x-delay": 5000,
},
ContentType: "text/plain",
Body: []byte(body),
})
failOnError(err, "Failed to publish a message")
log.Printf(" [x] Sent %s\n", body)
}
receive.go
package main
import (
"log"
amqp "github.com/rabbitmq/amqp091-go"
)
func main() {
conn, err := amqp.Dial("amqp://guest:guest#localhost:5672/")
failOnError(err, "Failed to connect to RabbitMQ")
defer conn.Close()
ch, err := conn.Channel()
failOnError(err, "Failed to open a channel")
defer ch.Close()
q, err := ch.QueueDeclare(
"hello", // name
false, // durable
false, // delete when unused
false, // exclusive
false, // no-wait
nil, // arguments
)
failOnError(err, "Failed to declare a queue")
msgs, err := ch.Consume(
q.Name, // queue
"", // consumer
true, // auto-ack
false, // exclusive
false, // no-local
false, // no-wait
nil, // args
)
failOnError(err, "Failed to register a consumer")
var forever chan struct{}
go func() {
for d := range msgs {
log.Printf("Received a message: %s", d.Body)
}
}()
log.Printf(" [*] Waiting for messages. To exit press CTRL+C")
<-forever
}

Answer 1

In order to schedule a message you need to publish a message to the exchange with specific properties defined, which you don't do in the code you have provided.
Here is an example of how to declare the exchange which supports scheduling(taken from official documentation):
Map<String, Object> args = new HashMap<String, Object>();
args.put("x-delayed-type", "direct");
channel.exchangeDeclare("my-exchange", "x-delayed-message", true, false, args);
Then this is the way you publish(again taken from official documentation):
byte[] messageBodyBytes = "delayed payload".getBytes();
AMQP.BasicProperties.Builder props = new AMQP.BasicProperties.Builder();
headers = new HashMap<String, Object>();
headers.put("x-delay", 5000);
props.headers(headers);
channel.basicPublish("my-exchange", "", props.build(), messageBodyBytes);
PS: sorry for not providing examples in Go, I'm sure you can figure out how set things up using Go library