I have an ASP.NET Core application where I would like to consume RabbitMQ messages.
I have successfully set up the publishers and consumers in command line applications, but I'm not sure how to set it up properly in a web application.
I was thinking of initializing it in Startup.cs
, but of course it dies once startup is complete.
How to initialize the consumer in a the right way from a web app?
Use the Singleton pattern for a consumer/listener to preserve it while the application is running. Use the IApplicationLifetime
interface to start/stop the consumer on the application start/stop.
public class Startup
{
public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services)
{
services.AddSingleton<RabbitListener>();
}
public void Configure(IApplicationBuilder app)
{
app.UseRabbitListener();
}
}
public static class ApplicationBuilderExtentions
{
//the simplest way to store a single long-living object, just for example.
private static RabbitListener _listener { get; set; }
public static IApplicationBuilder UseRabbitListener(this IApplicationBuilder app)
{
_listener = app.ApplicationServices.GetService<RabbitListener>();
var lifetime = app.ApplicationServices.GetService<IApplicationLifetime>();
lifetime.ApplicationStarted.Register(OnStarted);
//press Ctrl+C to reproduce if your app runs in Kestrel as a console app
lifetime.ApplicationStopping.Register(OnStopping);
return app;
}
private static void OnStarted()
{
_listener.Register();
}
private static void OnStopping()
{
_listener.Deregister();
}
}
- You should take care of where your app is hosted. For example, IIS can recycle and stop your code from running.
- This pattern can be extended to a pool of listeners.
This is My Listener:
public class RabbitListener
{
ConnectionFactory factory { get; set; }
IConnection connection { get; set; }
IModel channel { get; set; }
public void Register()
{
channel.QueueDeclare(queue: "hello", durable: false, exclusive: false, autoDelete: false, arguments: null);
var consumer = new EventingBasicConsumer(channel);
consumer.Received += (model, ea) =>
{
var body = ea.Body;
var message = Encoding.UTF8.GetString(body);
int m = 0;
};
channel.BasicConsume(queue: "hello", autoAck: true, consumer: consumer);
}
public void Deregister()
{
this.connection.Close();
}
public RabbitListener()
{
this.factory = new ConnectionFactory() { HostName = "localhost" };
this.connection = factory.CreateConnection();
this.channel = connection.CreateModel();
}
}