On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 9:33 AM, Simon MacMullen <si...@rabbitmq.com> wrote:
> Hi. > > I'm interested in testing Proton against the RabbitMQ AMQP 1.0 adapter. > But I'm struggling with the APIs I need to use to write even a simple > program. I'm using the Java version but from what I can see the C version > has the same APIs. > > If I try to use the Messenger API then I don't see how I can specify a > source or target on any of my links - and indeed the examples I can see > showing use of the Messenger API don't do that. Indeed I don't seem to be > able to specify very much, but the lack of source / target means I can't > specify where I publish to or consume from. > > And if I run the examples and don't specify source / target I seem to end > up sending attach frames with these bits missing - which the spec says > means I will never send or receive messages! > > I tried using the lower level API (Driver / Connector / Connection / > Session / Link / Message etc) but gave up when I got to 100 lines of code > and hadn't sent a message - I assume I'm not supposed to use them directly? > > So what am I missing here? I assume there's some part of the API I don't > understand... > I'm guessing you need to set an address on the message. Messenger doesn't expose direct control over connections or links. It will figure out what connections/links to establish based on what address you specify on the message (kind of like SMTP). You could use something like "amqp://host/target". If you post your messenger code snippet I'd be happy to comment in more detail. --Rafael
