Proton Python clients is a collection of reactive messaging test clients built on python-qpid-proton AMQP1.0 based messaging library. cli-proton-python is a part of Unified Messaging Test Clients that offers equivalent functionality when using different programing languages or APIs.

current related projects:

• cli-java
• cli-rhea
• cli-netlite
• cli-proton-ruby

cli-proton-python requires Python v2.6+ to run.

$ pip install cli-proton-python

Using the command line clients (please refer to --help to discover the available options)

$ cli-proton-python-sender --broker-url "username:password@localhost:5672/queue_test" --count 1 --msg-content "text message" --log-msgs dict
$ cli-proton-python-receiver --broker-url "username:password@localhost:5672/queue_test" --count 1 --log-msgs dict

Using in script

import proton
from cli_proton_python import sender

parser = sender.options.SenderOptions()

opts, _ = parser.parse_args()
opts.broker_url = 'username:password@localhost:5672/examples'
opts.count = 1
opts.msg_content = 'text message'
opts.log_msgs = 'dict'

container = proton.reactor.Container(sender.Send(opts))
container.run()

Documentation may be found on readthedocs.io: read the docummentation