Handling connection failures in apache-camel - scala

Question

I am writing an apache-camel RabbitMQ consumer. I would like to react somehow to connection problems (i.e. try to reconnect). Is it possible to configure apache-camel to automatically reconnect?
If not, how can I find out that a connection to the queue was interrupted? I've done the following test:
start the queue (and some producer)
start my consumer (it was getting messages as expected)
stop the queue (the messages stopped arriving, as expected, but no exception was thrown)
start the queue (no new messages were received)
I am using camel in Scala (via akka-camel), but a Java solution would be probably also OK

Answer 1

You can pass in the flag automaticRecoveryEnabled=true to the URI, Camel will reconnect if the connection is lost.

Answer 2

For automatic RabbitMQ resource recovery (Connections/Channels/Consumers/Queues/Exchanages/Bindings) when failures occur, check out Lyra (which I authored). Example usage:
Config config = new Config()
.withRecoveryPolicy(new RecoveryPolicy()
.withMaxAttempts(20)
.withInterval(Duration.seconds(1))
.withMaxDuration(Duration.minutes(5)));
ConnectionOptions options = new ConnectionOptions().withHost("localhost");
Connection connection = Connections.create(options, config);
The rest of the API is just the amqp-client API, except your resources are automatically recovered when failures occur.
I'm not sure about camel-rabbitmq specifically, but hopefully there's a way you can swap in your own resource creation via Lyra.

Answer 3

Current camel-rabbitmq just create a connection and the channel when the consumer or producer is started. So it don't have a chance to catch the connection exception :(.