I'm using RabbitMQ with pika (Python), and I'm wondering if there's a way to determine how many times a message has been re-queued?
The general idea is that I'd like my worker to be able to tell that the message it's dealing with has been rejected/re-queued X times before, and then take appropriate action to do some error processing and then explicitly remove the item from the queue if it reaches a limit of Y retries.
I know that I could potentially make a copy of the the message, increment the value of the priority property (or even increment a value in the headers), then publish the copy to the queue and then ack the original message (similar to the approach of this example I found), but I would prefer to explicitly nack and re-queue the message.
Any ideas?