Apologies, there does indeed seem to be a bug here - I've raised QPID-7732 and fixed on trunk (and also attached a patch for 6.0.x).
-- Rob On 31 March 2017 at 15:47, Antoine Chevin <antoine.che...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello Rob, > > Olivier and I re-checked the global address domain feature and it seems it > does not resolve the global addresses correctly. > When I create the queue 'queueA' on the broker and I set the > globalAddressDomains to '/domain/subdomain', and then I register a listener > with JMS for the queue '/domain/subdomain/queueA' I get an > 'amqp-not-found'. > Is this expected? > > When I told you it worked, I think I had a zombie queue > '/domain/subdomain/queueA' from my previous attempt to use '/' in queue > names that made it "work" :-(. > > Thank you, > Regards, > Antoine > > -----Original Message----- > From: Rob Godfrey [mailto:rob.j.godf...@gmail.com] > Sent: jeudi 2 mars 2017 16:07 > To: users@qpid.apache.org > Subject: Re: Accessing queues with '/' in name in Rest API [qpid java > broker 6.0.4] > > On 2 March 2017 at 15:11, Antoine Chevin <antoine.che...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Thank you Rob for the very detailed answer. > > I saw in the code > > (org.apache.qpid.server.protocol.v1_0.Session_1_0#remoteLinkCreation)t > > hat the exchange lookup is skipped if the address starts with a '/'. > > I intend to use a '/' in the beginning because I don't want the > > exchange lookup. > > Do you think it is a good approach? > > > > > So the intent here is that addresses that start with "/" are considered to > be "global" addresses as previously described, addresses that start with > "/" but match one of the gloabAddressDomains for the virtual host would > route within the virtual host to the appropriate destination, names that > begin with "/" but don't match one of the domains for the vhost would be > sent via federation to a remote broker (when that code gets completed - > obviously we don't have federation of that kind in the Java Broker > currently). > > So having a name which begins with "/" may work right now, but it's > reasonably likely it might break in the future. In general I would avoid > "/" as well as "?", ";", ",", "[", "]", "|", "(", and ")" in queue names. > > Is the plan that all your queues will start with the same /<foo>/... > prefix, or will different queues have different prefixes? > > -- Rob > > > > Thank you, > > Regards, > > Antoine > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Rob Godfrey [mailto:rob.j.godf...@gmail.com] > > Sent: jeudi 2 mars 2017 11:09 > > To: users@qpid.apache.org > > Subject: Re: Accessing queues with '/' in name in Rest API [qpid java > > broker 6.0.4] > > > > On 2 March 2017 at 10:46, Antoine Chevin <antoine.che...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > > Thank you Rob for the answer. Yes it really helps! > > > I noticed that addresses in the form <exchange-name>/<routing-key> > > > are also used with AMQP 1-0. Is it expected? > > > > > > > > It is part of how the Java Broker maps the AMQP 0-x > > Exchange/Binding/Queue model into the AMQP 1.0 address space, yes. > > > > In short when the Java Broker receives a message to an address X it > > first looks to see if there is an exchange X, then if there is a queue > > X, then if X contains a / it looks to see if the part before the / is > > an exchange name, and if so it sends to that exchange with the part > > after the / being used as the routing key. > > > > When the Java Broker receives a request to consume from an address X > > it first looks to see if there is a Queue X, then if there is an > > Exchange X (in which case it creates a temporary queue and binds with > > an empty binding key), and then if X contains a / and the part before > > the X is an exchange name it will create a temporary queue and bind > > that to the exchange with the binding key being the part of X after the > /. > > > > Note the asymmetry on send and consume that on send it first looks for > > an exchange and on consume it first looks for a queue. > > > > (There are a few more rules for the globalAddressDomains and for > > system addresses like $management, but the above is the general rule). > > > > -- Rob > > > > > > > Thank you, > > > Regards, > > > Antoine > > > > > > On 1 March 2017 at 20:25, Olivier Mallassi > > > <olivier.malla...@gmail.com> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > Rob, all > > > > > > > > Thank you rob for this. Could you please share more details > > > > regarding not using the "/"? > > > > > > > > > > > So there are a couple of reasons why I think not using a / makes sense: > > > > > > 1) Because of exactly the REST / encoding issue that you ran into - > > > using characters that often need escaping can cause a lot of issues > > > in config files, parameters etc... depending upon where the queue > > > name might be used you may end up encoding that / one, two or even > > > more times... this gets messy fast > > > > > > 2) Because in AMQP addressing we've been imaging the / as a > > > separator when using some sort of topological address scheme for > > > addressing in federated networks... for instance you might have a > > > queue for orders in you dongle department of your widget division of > > > your company foo.com... and you might expose that address as > > > //foo.com/widget/dongle/orders whereas someone connected directly > > > to > > the > > broker would just see the queue as "orders" > > > (though they could also address it by its full "global" name). The > > > Java Broker already makes some allowance for this with the notion of > > > "globalAddressDomains" which you can set on the virtual host. For > > > any domain <foo> in the list of defined globalAddressDomains, the > > > virtualhost will accept messages sent <foo>/M as if it were sent to > > > M (and the same with consuming). > > > > > > Also note that for the Java Broker an address of the form <exchange > > > name>/<routing key> can be used to send / receive via AMQP 0-x > > > exchange/routing-key semantics. > > > > > > Hope this helps, > > > Rob > > > > > > > > > > On our side we are using amqp 1.0 that, AFAIU, promotes the "complex" > > > > addressing plans > > > > The benefit for us would be > > > > - alignements between our http and amqp naming conventions. It is > > > > a nice to have but can help lisibility > > > > - use "URL" to route messages. Like the samples with the > > > > linkroutepattern > > > > > > > > Not sure these are good ideas btw. Any feedback is welcomed > > > > > > > > Regards > > > > > > > > On Wed, 1 Mar 2017 at 18:16, Rob Godfrey <rob.j.godf...@gmail.com> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > In general I'd advise against using the '/' character in queue > > > > > names if possible... however if you must, then you need double > > > > > encode the name, so "a/b" would become "a%252Fb" > > > > > > > > > > Hope this helps, > > > > > Rob > > > > > > > > > > On 1 March 2017 at 17:31, Antoine Chevin > > > > > <antoine.che...@gmail.com> > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > > > > > > > I created a queue with a '/' in the name. How can I access it > > > > > > in the > > > > rest > > > > > > api? > > > > > > I tried to encode the '/' with %2F but I still get a 422 "too > > > > > > many > > > > > entries > > > > > > in path for REST servlet queue." > > > > > > Can you please help? > > > > > > > > > > > > Regards, > > > > > > Antoine > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >