LavinMQ with Python

The recommended library for Python to access LavinMQ servers is Pika.

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

Python development environment

First make sure that you have Python and that it’s available from your command line. You can confirm this by running: python --version
If you get a NameError: name 'python' is not defined, then you do not have Python. Download Python from python.org or you could even use pyenv to manage multiple Python versions
Run python3 -m venv env-name on Unix and macOS or python -m venv env-name on Windows to create a virtual environment where we install the dependencies for our project. Replace env-name with whatever name you chose for your virtual environment.
Run source env-name/bin/activate on Unix and macOS or .\env-name\Scripts\activate on Windows to activate the virtual environment.
Open your project directory in your favourite text-editor and create a requirements.txt file. Add pika==1.1.0 and python-dotenv to requirements.txt file.
Install dependencies with pip install -r requirements.txt
Create a .env file in in the root directory
Add CLOUDAMQP_URL="lavinmq_url" to the `.env’ file. Replace lavinmq_url with your correct server url

Publishing messages

# producer.py

import pika, os
from dotenv import load_dotenv

load_dotenv()

# Access the CLOUDAMQP_URL environment variable and parse it (fallback to localhost)
url = os.environ.get('CLOUDAMQP_URL', 'amqp://guest:guest@localhost:5672/%2f')

# Create a connection
params = pika.URLParameters(url)
connection = pika.BlockingConnection(params)
print("[✅] Connection over channel established")

channel = connection.channel() # start a channel
channel.queue_declare(queue="hello_world") # Declare a queue

def send_to_queue(channel, routing_key, body):
  channel.basic_publish(
        exchange='',
        routing_key=routing_key,
        body=body
  )
  print(f"[📥] Message sent to queue #{body}")

# Publish messages
send_to_queue(
    channel=channel, routing_key="hello_world", body="Hello World"
)
send_to_queue(
    channel=channel, routing_key="hello_world", body="Hello World"
)
send_to_queue(
    channel=channel, routing_key="hello_world", body="Hello World"
)

try:
  connection.close()
  print("[❎] Connection closed")
except Exception as e:
  print(f"Error: #{e}")

Consume messages

import pika, os, sys
from dotenv import load_dotenv

load_dotenv()

# Access the CLOUDAMQP_URL environment variable and parse it (fallback to localhost)
url = os.environ.get('CLOUDAMQP_URL', 'amqp://guest:guest@localhost:5672/%2f')

# Create a connection
params = pika.URLParameters(url)
connection = pika.BlockingConnection(params)
print("[✅] Connection over channel established")

channel = connection.channel() # start a channel
channel.queue_declare(queue="hello_world") # Declare a queue

def callback(ch, method, properties, body):
    print(f"[✅] Received #{ body }")

channel.basic_consume(
    "hello_world",
    callback,
    auto_ack=True,
)

try:
  print("\n[❎] Waiting for messages. To exit press CTRL+C \n")
  channel.start_consuming()
except Exception as e:
  print(f"Error: #{e}")
  try:
    sys.exit(0)
  except SystemExit:
    os._exit(0)

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 Python

Python development environment

Publishing messages

Consume messages

Managed LavinMQ instance on CloudAMQP

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