LavinMQ with Golang

The recommended library for Golang to access LavinMQ server is amqp091-go.

Before we jump right into writing our code, let’s set up the development environment.

Go development environment

Download and install Go. Confirm that it’s available from your command line: go version
Create a directory for your project and navigate into it: mkdir go_sample && cd go_sample
Enable dependency tracking for your code: go mod init go_sample

Publishing messages

In your project directory, create a file producer.go and add the snippet below to it.

# producer.go
package main

import (
  "context"
  "log"
  "time"

  amqp "github.com/rabbitmq/amqp091-go"
)

func failOnError(err error, msg string) {
	if err != nil {
	  log.Panicf("%s: %s", msg, err)
	}
}

func main() {
	connection, err := amqp.Dial("lavinmq server URL")
	failOnError(err, "Failed to connect to RabbitMQ")
	defer connection.Close()

	channel, err := connection.Channel()
	failOnError(err, "Failed to open a channel")
	log.Print("[✅] Connection over channel established")
	defer channel.Close()

	queue, err := channel.QueueDeclare(
		"hello", // name
		false,   // durable
		false,   // delete when unused
		false,   // exclusive
		false,   // no-wait
		nil,     // arguments
	)
	failOnError(err, "Failed to declare a queue")
	
	
	ctx, cancel := context.WithTimeout(context.Background(), 5*time.Second)
	defer cancel()
	
	body := "Hello World"
	err = channel.PublishWithContext(ctx,
		"",     // exchange
		queue.Name, // routing key
		false,  // mandatory
		false,  // immediate
		amqp.Publishing{
			ContentType: "text/plain",
			Body:        []byte(body),
		})
	failOnError(err, "Failed to publish a message")
	log.Printf("[📥] Message sent to queue:  %s\n", body)
}

In the snippet above, we first of all imported a couple of packages - the amqp Go client library included. We then established a connection to the LavinMQ server over a channel. Finally, we created a queue and published a “Hello world” message to the queue.

Note: Remember to replace “lavinmq server URL” in the snippet above with your correct URL.

Before running the producer, first, run go mod tidy in your terminal - This way, Go will add the amqp091-go module as a requirement, as well as a go.sum file for use in authenticating the module.

You can now run the producer with go run producer.go

Consume messages

In your project directory, create a file consumer.go and add the snippet below to it.

package main

import (
	"log"
	amqp "github.com/rabbitmq/amqp091-go"
)

func failOnError(err error, msg string) {
	if err != nil {
		log.Panicf("%s: %s", msg, err)
	}
}

func main() {
	connection, err := amqp.Dial("Lavinmq server URL")
	failOnError(err, "Failed to connect to RabbitMQ")
	defer connection.Close()

	channel, err := connection.Channel()
	failOnError(err, "Failed to open a channel")
	log.Print("[✅] Connection over channel established")
	defer channel.Close()

	q, err := channel.QueueDeclare(
		"hello", // name
		false,   // durable
		false,   // delete when unused
		false,   // exclusive
		false,   // no-wait
		nil,     // arguments
	)
	failOnError(err, "Failed to declare a queue")

	msgs, err := channel.Consume(
		q.Name, // queue
		"",     // consumer
		true,   // auto-ack
		false,  // exclusive
		false,  // no-local
		false,  // no-wait
		nil,    // args
	)
	failOnError(err, "Failed to register a consumer")

	var forever chan struct{}

	go func() {
		for d := range msgs {
			log.Printf("[✅] Message Received: %s", d.Body)
		}
	}()

	log.Printf("[❎] Waiting for messages. To exit press CTRL+C")
	<-forever
}

Note: Again, remember to replace “lavinmq server URL” in the snippet above with your correct URL.

Run the consumer with go run consumer.go

Introduction

Configuration

Language Support

AMQP 0-9-1 Overview

More Exchange Types

More Consumer Features

Queue Deep-dive

Other Features

Reliable Message Delivery

High Availability and Backup

Monitoring

Management HTTP API

Tutorials

Networking

LavinMQ CLI

LavinMQ with Golang

Go development environment

Publishing messages

Consume messages

Managed LavinMQ instance on CloudAMQP

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