On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 9:44 AM, siddutta <siddhartha_du...@live.com> wrote:
> I wish to run an experiment in which the publisher loses connection with > the > broker and then enqueues them in its own queue and then when it regains > connectivity it send s all its queued messages to the broker. How can I I > do > this since if I call close connection, I can no longer send(raises an > exception). A trick that I can think of is to use a network of two brokers > and simulate the above by breaking the connection between the two brokers. > Is there an API call that I can use to do the above? > You could try sending a SIGSTOP signal to the broker process, wait for a while, and then send it a SIGCONT. If the broker is running in a terminal, you can do Ctrl+z to pause it and then fg to resume it. If you do this, connection stays open, but broker stops responding. I believe that from the point of view of the publisher, this is indistinguishable from a network failure between the publisher and the router. -- Jiří Daněk
