No. Having a "/" in the exchange name is not allowed by the AMQP 0-x specification that defined exchanges, it requires they must be formed of basic A-Z or a-z letters, digits, dash, underscore, colon, or dots.
I believe the "/" was also reserved by the broker itself long long ago to allow for things such as an "<exchange-name>/<routing-key>" form AMQP 1.0 address to help map AMQP 1.0 client usage onto existing AMQP 0-x usage/behaviours, which again necessarily precludes a "/" being part of the exchange name. (Aside: the AMQP 0-x topic exchange routing key is similarly not allowed to have a "/" in it, being formed of basic A-Z or a-z letters and digit words each separated by deliminator dots). I think the "/" was also being used towards some old work on global addressing, especially the "/" at the start. On Tue, 22 Jul 2025 at 12:51, Krause, Pascal <pascal.kra...@sap.com.invalid> wrote: > > Hello, > > I'm using the Qpid Broker-J docker image version 9.2.1 [1]. I want to add a > new exchange of type topic with the name "/car/bought/customer" via the > Broker-J UI. Unfortunately, this is not working, because I get the error > "Illegal or reserved exchange name!". It seems that I'm not allowed to use > "/" (slash) in the exchange name. > > When I create the exchange via REST API > "/api/latest/exchange/default/default" it is possible to create an exchange > with the name "/car/bought/customer", it is also shown in the UI. But when I > want to send messages to this topic, my Qpid JMS Client 2.7.0 [2] fails > always with the exception "Unknown destination '/car/bought/customer' > [condition = amqp:not-found]. > > As soon as I replace the "/" with "." (in the broker and client), everything > works as expected. > > Question: Is there a way to use Qpid Broker-J with "/" in the topic name? > > Regards, > Pascal > > [1] https://github.com/apache/qpid-broker-j/blob/9.2.1/qpid-docker/README.md > [2] https://github.com/apache/qpid-jms --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@qpid.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@qpid.apache.org
