Is there any way to list queues in rabbitmq via pika?

Question

I know that we can do this to list queue in a rabbitmq:

rabbitmqctl list_queues

but how can I do this via pika?

Clytemnestra

Answer 1

No.

Pika is an AMQP library.

If you want to manage an MQ Broker, then you need an MQ Broker management tool. Fortunately, RabbitMQ comes with such a tool if you install a recent version of RabbitMQ such as 2.7.1 and you install the RabbitMQ management plugins. That gives you a web GUI as well as a RESTful API that you can use in your scripts.

But it's all outside of the scope of AMQP itself.

http://www.rabbitmq.com/management.html for the management plugin with a web GUI and http://www.rabbitmq.com/management-cli.html for a CLI type of interface.

Raffish

so the AMQP protocal itself does not support 'listing queue', right? then, do rabbitmq provide this kind of api? – Clytemnestra

Answer 2

While pika does not work, you can use the rabbitmq web api for this, e.g.

requests.get('https://' + hostname + "/api/queues", auth=('user', 'password'))

This is documented on your rabbitmq web frontend, just click HTTP API:

Plafker