Spring Rabbit - How to recover rabbit topology for Declarables (queues/bindings/exchanges) that are not beans (when rabbit server restarts) - spring-amqp

I use a Spring Boot application with spring-rabbit (version 2.2.2). Since the nature of my application is very dynamic, the queues and bindings are declared dynamically using RabbitAdmin.declareXXX methods, so they are not declared as Spring Beans.
From my understanding (and testing), the RabbitAdmin's functionality for auto-recovery the topology when rabbitmq server restarts is only for exchanges/queues/bindings that were declared as Spring Beans (am I correct?).
I tried to use the underlying Rabbit client's auto recovery feature using the following methods:
cachingConnectionFactory.getRabbitConnectionFactory().setAutomaticRecoveryEnabled(true)
cachingConnectionFactory.getRabbitConnectionFactory().setTopologyRecoveryEnabled(true)
However, after the rabbitmq server restart, the spring application fails with:
One org.springframework.amqp.rabbit.connection.AutoRecoverConnectionNotCurrentlyOpenException
And multiple continuous com.rabbitmq.client.ShutdownSignalException: channel error; protocol method: #method<channel.close>(reploy-code=404, reply-text=NOT_FOUND - no queue 'recovery-q1' in host '/'
and nothing is getting recovered.
Note that a test without Spring, where the queue is created directly through the channel, the queue is recovered properly with its consumers.
Is there anything else I can configure to make this work?

Currently, spring only recovers Declarables that are defined as beans in the application context.
Based on your user name, I assume you opened this feature request: https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-amqp/issues/1365
Posting this here in case people come across this question.

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You can get more info in this talk I did about transactions in Grails.
First, if your performance concerns are due to the fact your services are transactional then you have reached nirvana. I say this because there are going to be plenty of other bottle necks in your application long before this is a major (or even minor) concern. So, don't fret about that.
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