Amqp Watcher

A tool to get and send messages from an amqp server from the command line

Installation

$ npm install amqp-watcher -g

Usage

Usage: amqp-watcher [options] [command]

  Commands:

    get 
    Get messages from the given exchange or if specified directly from a queue.
    
    send 
    Send messages to the exchange

  Options:

    -h, --help                 output usage information
    -V, --version              output the version number
    -s, --server <servername>  Hostname of the server [localhost]
    -u, --url <url>            Url to connect to. For example amqp://user:pass@localhost:port/vhost]
    -e, --exchange <name>      Exchange name to bind to [amq.topic]
    -t, --type <type>          Exchange type
    -q, --queue <queuename>    Queue name [watcher-randomnr]
    -d, --durable <bool>       Is the exchange or queue durable? [true]
    -k, --key [routing key]    Set the value of the routing key [#]
    -o, --output <file>        Output messages to [stdout]
    -i, --input <file>         Read messages from
    -b, --body <text>          Body of the message to send.
    ,--text <bool>             Assume the content in the body is text [true]
    -c, --count <n>            Send or get n messages

Examples

Get all mesages from exchange

$ amqp-watcher get -s myhost -e exchange

Get messages exchange, that match the routing key 'this.route':

$ amqp-watcher get -s myhost -e exchange -k 'this.route'

Send 10 'hello world' to exchange:

$ amqp-watcher send -s myhost -e exchange -b 'hello world' -c 10

Get the first message from queue

$ amqp-watcher get -s myhost -q queue -c 1

Send the content of file.txt to exchange, line by line

$ amqp-watcher send -s myhost -e exchange -i file.txt

Get all messages from host1 comming to queue and send it to host2 to exchange

$ amqp-watcher get -s host1 -q queue | amqp-watcher send -s host2 -e exchange

License

(The MIT License)

Copyright (c) 2011 Phillip Neumann <[e-mail]>

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