This repository has been moved to the main unified RabbitMQ "monorepo", including all open issues. You can find the source under /deps/rabbitmq_recent_history_exchange. All issues have been transferred.

Keeps track of the last 20 messages that passed through the exchange. Every time a queue is bound to the exchange it delivers that last 20 messages to them. This is useful for implementing a very simple Chat History where clients that join the conversation can get the latest messages.

Exchange Type: x-recent-history

As of RabbitMQ 3.6.0 this plugin is included into the RabbitMQ distribution.

Enable it with the following command:

rabbitmq-plugins enable rabbitmq_recent_history_exchange

Install the corresponding .ez files from our Community Plugins archive..

Then run the following command:

rabbitmq-plugins enable rabbitmq_recent_history_exchange

Please see RabbitMQ Plugin Development guide.

To build the plugin:

git clone git://github.com/rabbitmq/rabbitmq-recent-history-exchange.git
cd rabbitmq-recent-history-exchange
make

Then copy all the *.ez files inside the plugins folder to the RabbitMQ plugins directory and enable the plugin:

[sudo] rabbitmq-plugins enable rabbitmq_recent_history_exchange

To create a recent history exchange, just declare an exchange providing the type "x-recent-history".

channel.exchangeDeclare("logs", "x-recent-history");

Typically this exchange will store the latest 20 messages sent over the exchange. If you want to set a different cache length, then you can pass a "x-recent-history-length" argument to exchange.declare. The argument must be an integer greater or equal to zero.

For example in Java:

Map<String, Object> args = new HashMap<String, Object>();
args.put("x-recent-history-length", 60);
channel.exchangeDeclare("rh", "x-recent-history", false, false, args);

In case you would like to not store certain messages, just add the header "x-recent-history-no-store" with the value true to the message.

A future version of RabbitMQ will allow users to disable plugins. When you disable this plugin, it will delete all the cached messages.

See LICENSE.