README.md

Message Generator

Author: Dylan Varga

Purpose: Recieve message request through rabbitMQ pipeline 'messageRQ' and return random message throguh rabbitMQ pipeline 'pomodoroMessage'

Communication Contract:

Requesting Data:

Create a new pipeline and queue using RabbitMQ. In JS this is done as follows:

connection.createChannel(function(error1, channel) {
        if (error1) {
            throw error1;
        }

        var queue = 'messageRQ';
});

In Python, it is done as follows:

connection = pika.BlockingConnection(pike.ConnectionParameters('localhost'))
channel = connection.channel()
channel.queue_declare(queue='messageRQ')

What's important is that the queue name is 'messageRQ'.

Once the connection and queue are established, publish the message 'send_message' to the queue:

message = 'send_message'
channel.basic_publish(exchange='', routing_key='messageRQ', body=message)

or, if in JS,

    var msg = 'send_message';
    channel.sendToQueue(queue, Buffer.from(msg));

Receiving Data:

Receiving works similarly to sending. We'll create a seperate queue called 'pomodoroMessage'

channel.queue_declare(queue='pomodoroMessage')

or, in JS,

connection.createChannel(function(error1, channel) {
        if (error1) {
            throw error1;
        }

        var receiveQueue = 'pomodoroMessage';
});

Then check that queue for the now-incoming randomly generated "congrats" message:

def callback(ch, method, properties, body):
    message = body.decode('utf-8')
channel.start_consuming()
channel.basic_consume(queue='pomodoroMessage', auto_ack=True, on_meesage_callback=callback)

In JS,

    channel.consume(receiveQueue, function(msg) {
        #console.log/save to variable/etc
        console.log("%s", msg.content.toString());
    }, {
        noAck: true
    });

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