How to serialize into JSON message in MassTransit and store it, so that it can be sent at a later time without any changes

Question

I am trying to find a good way to serialize MassTransit messages (envelope and all) and store the messages outside of MassTransit. I then want to be able to send the messages at some point in time with MassTransit without any extra serialization. Is there a way to do this with MassTransit and RabbitMQ.

Answer 1

You can use Quartz.NET, MassTransit has built-in support for scheduling messages.

The usage is documented: http://docs.masstransit-project.com/en/latest/scheduling/scheduling_api.html

There is also a self-hosting (using Topshelf) service for Quartz.

https://github.com/MassTransit/MassTransit/tree/develop/src/MassTransit.Host.Quartz