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About the Plugin

The Parasoft RabbitMQ Transport Extension adds support for the RabbitMQ transport to applicable messaging client tools in Parasoft SOAtest. RabbitMQ is a lightweight, reliable, scalable and portable message broker. Applications communicate with it via a platform-neutral, wire-level protocol: the Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP).

A related extension, the RabbitMQ Listener, enables a virtual asset to receive and respond to messages over RabbitMQ in Parasoft Virtualize.

Requirements

  • SOAtest 9.9.0 or later

Installation

This tool can be installed from the UI or the command line.

UI Installation

  1. Choose Parasoft> Preferences.
  2. In the System Properties preferences page, click Add JARs. 
  3. Choose rabbitmqtransport.jar in the file browser. 

Once this jar file is added to the SOAtest classpath, all of the required dependencies will be loaded.

Command Line Installation

Add the rabbitmqtransport.jar file to the system.properties.classpath property in your localsettings properties file. For example:

system.properties.classpath=<path to jar>/rabbitmqtransport.jar

Once the classpath is modified, all of the required dependencies will be loaded.

Usage

The RabbitMQ Transport is primarily used in message client tools (e.g., SOAP Client, EDI Client, and Messaging Client). The transport is configured in the Messaging Client's Transport tab. To use the RabbitMQ Transport in a Messaging Client, choose RabbitMQ (AMQP) from the Transport drop-down menu and configure the available options.

The following configuration options are available. Many settings are identical to RabbitMQ settings; see the Rabbit MQ documentation for more details.

Connection Settings

Host 

Defines the hostname of the RabbitMQ server. The default is localhost. 

Port 

Defines the port of the RabbitMQ server. The default is 5672 (5761 with SSL enabled). 

Use SSL 

Enables/disables SSL. The default is false. 

Username 

Defines the RabbitMQ username. The default is guest. 

Password 

Defines the RabbitMQ password. The default is guest. 

Virtual Host 

Defines the RabbitMQ Virtual Host to connect to. The default is / 

Automatic Recovery 

Set to true if the transport should attempt to automatically recover from connection failures. The default is true. 

Topology Recovery 

Set to true if the listener should attempt to automatically recover from topological failures (i.e., failures with exchanges or queues). Default is true.

Publish Settings

Exchange Name 

Defines the exchange that the message is sent to. The default is default exchange. 

Routing Key 

Defines the routing key that will be used when sending the message. 

Mandatory 

Determines whether the message is published with the mandatory field set to true or false. The default is false. 

Immediate

Not supported in RabbitMQ 3.0 and higher. Determines whether the message is published with the immediate field set to true or false. The default is false. 

Basic Properties

App id 

Defines the identifier of the application that produced the message. 

Cluster id 

Deprecated in AMQP 0.9.1. Defines the intra-cluster routing identifier. 

Content Encoding 

Defines the message content encoding. Enter a MIME content type (e.g., gzip). 

Content Type 

Defines the message content type. Enter a MIME content encoding (e.g., application/json). The default is to use the request message's content type. 

Correlation Id 

Defines the ID of the correlated message (e.g., the message that this is a reply to). 

Delivery Mode 

Determines if the message should be persisted to disk. Enter 1 for non-persistent, 2 for persistent. 

Expiration 

Defines the expiration time (in milliseconds) after which the message will be deleted. 

Headers 

Defines message headers. Enter a comma-separated key/value pairs.

Example:

key1=value1,key2=value2 

Message Id 

Defines the message identifier. 

Priority 

Defines the message priority. You can enter a number from 0 to 9. 

ReplyTo 

Defines the name of the queue to which the response should be sent. 

Timestamp 

Defines how to set the message timestamp. You can enter auto to use the current time, or enter a fixed date/time. If specifying a fixed date/time, use fixed yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss format (e.g., 2017-01-18 19:14:59) or locale default format M/d/yy h:mm a (e.g., 1/17/17 7:15 pm for the US). UNIX timestamp format is also accepted. 

Type 

Defines the message type (e.g., what type of event or command this message represents). 

User Id 

Defines the optional user ID. 

Consume Settings

Wait for Reply 

Set to true if the transport should wait for a reply message. The default is true.

If set to true, you can also filter the reply messages by specifying response correlation parameters in the Response Correlation Settings.

Create Consumer Before Sending the Message 

Set to true if a consumer should be created before sending the message. The default is true. 

Queue Name 

Defines the reply queue. The default is temporary queue. 

Binding Exchange 

Defines the exchange the temporary queue binds to. 

Binding Routing Key 

Defines the binding key used when binding the temporary queue to the exchange. 

Timeout for Reply 

Defines the timeout for the reply in milliseconds. The default is 30000. 

Response Correlation Settings

If the RabbitMQ transport is configured to wait for a reply message, these settings let you filter the reply messages by specifying response correlation parameters. If no correlation is configured (e.g., all fields are empty), no filtering will be performed and the transport will consume the first available reply message. If correlation is configured, the field entries will be evaluated from top to bottom; the first matching field will be used for correlation.

Match Response Correlation Id with Request Message Id 

Set to true if the transport should ignore all responses except for those with Correlation ID matching the Message ID of the published message. The default is false. 

Match Response Correlation Id with Request Correlation Id 

Set to true if the transport should ignore all responses except for those with Correlation ID matching the Correlation ID of the published message. The default is false. 

Match Correlation Id Value 

Specify a value in this field and the transport will ignore all responses except for those with Correlation ID matching the specified value. 

Connection Management Settings

Keep connection alive/ Close connection after test execution 

The RabbitMQ transport allows multiple active connections to be used. If the connection settings match a connection that is already open, then it will reuse that connection. If any of the connection settings are different, then a new connection will be created.

Marking a test as "keep alive" (with Keep connection alive enabled) will tell SOAtest not to call close() on the connection at the end of that test's execution.

To close the connection, a test must be configured as "close connection" (with Close connection after test execution enabled). SOAtest will close the last connection used, which will be the connection used for that test.

Unlike with the built-in HTTP transport, there is no final cleanup of open connections for custom transports when all execution is finished. Instead, it is the user's responsibility to mark the last test of a given connection as "close connection," otherwise the connection will stay open.

For example, in the following scenario both connections will be kept open after the test run is over.

Settings A (keep alive)

Settings B (keep alive)

Settings A (keep alive)

Settings B (keep alive)

To fix this, you would mark the last test for each unique set of settings as "close connection".

Settings A (keep alive)

Settings B (keep alive)

Settings A (close connection)

Settings B (close connection)


Third-Party Content

This extension includes items that have been sourced from third parties as outlined below.

Additional license details are available in this plugin's licenses folder.

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