PCF / Cloud connector for Rabbit management API

Question

All, I'm running a simple SpringBoot app in PCF using a Rabbit on-demand service. The auto reconfiguration of the ConnectionFactory for the internal Rabbit service works just fine.

However I need a list of all queues on the Rabbit host. AFAIK this is only available through a call to the Rabbit management plugin (a REST API), see RabbitManagementTemplate::getQueues. This class expects an http URI with credentials. I know the URI+credentials are exposed through the vcap.service variables as "http_api_uri', but I wonder if there's a more elegant way to get an instance of RabbitManagentTemplate with Spring magic cloud connectors / auto reconfiguration instead of manually reading the env vars and writing custom bean config.

It seems the ConnectionFactory only knows about the AMQP interface, and cannot create a RabbitManagementTemplate?

Thanks!

Answer 1

Spring Cloud Connectors won't help you here. It doesn't support setting up RabbitManagementTemplate, only a ConnectionFactory.

You don't have to parse the env yourself, you can use the flattened properties that Boot provides such as vcap.services.rabbitmq.credentials.http_api_uri. But you'll need to configure a RabbitManagementTemplate yourself using those Boot properties.