I'm receiving messages from a service (S) that publishes each individual property change to an entity as a separate message. A contrived example would be an entity like this:
Person {
id: 123
name: "Something",
address: {...}
}
If name and address are updated in the same transaction then (S) will publish two messages, PersonNameCorrected
and PersonMoved
. The problem is on the receiving side where I'm storing a projection of this Person
entity and each property change causes a write to the database. So in this example there would be two writes to the database but if I could batch messages for a short period of time and group them by id then I would only have to make a single write to the database.
How does one typically handle this in RabbitMQ? Does Spring AMQP provide an easier abstraction?
Note that I have looked briefly at prefetch but I'm not sure if this is the way to go. Also prefetch, if I understand it correctly, is per connection basis. I'm trying to achieve this on a per-queue basis, because if batching (and thus added latency) is the way to go I wouldn't like to add this latency to ALL queues consumed by my service (but only to those that need the "group-by-id" features).
Prefetch won't help for a case like this.
Consider using Spring Integration which has adapters that sit on top of Spring AMQP; it also provides an aggregrator which can be used to group messages together before sending them on to the next stage in the pipeline.
EDIT
Here's a quick boot app to demostrate...
@SpringBootApplication
public class So42969130Application implements CommandLineRunner {
public static void main(String[] args) {
SpringApplication.run(So42969130Application.class, args)
.close();
}
@Autowired
private RabbitTemplate template;
@Autowired
private Handler handler;
@Override
public void run(String... args) throws Exception {
this.template.convertAndSend("so9130", new PersonNameChanged(123));
this.template.convertAndSend("so9130", new PersonMoved(123));
this.handler.latch.await(10, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
}
@Bean
public IntegrationFlow flow(ConnectionFactory connectionFactory) {
return IntegrationFlows.from(Amqp.inboundAdapter(connectionFactory, "so9130")
.messageConverter(converter()))
.aggregate(a -> a
.correlationExpression("payload.id")
.releaseExpression("false") // open-ended release, timeout only
.sendPartialResultOnExpiry(true)
.groupTimeout(2000))
.handle(handler())
.get();
}
@Bean
public Jackson2JsonMessageConverter converter() {
return new Jackson2JsonMessageConverter();
}
@Bean
public Handler handler() {
return new Handler();
}
@Bean
public Queue queue() {
return new Queue("so9130", false, false, true);
}
public static class Handler {
private final CountDownLatch latch = new CountDownLatch(1);
@ServiceActivator
public void handle(Collection<?> aggregatedData) {
System.out.println(aggregatedData);
this.latch.countDown();
}
}
public static class PersonNameChanged {
private int id;
PersonNameChanged() {
}
PersonNameChanged(int id) {
this.id = id;
}
public int getId() {
return this.id;
}
public void setId(int id) {
this.id = id;
}
@Override
public String toString() {
return "PersonNameChanged [id=" + this.id + "]";
}
}
public static class PersonMoved {
private int id;
PersonMoved() {
}
PersonMoved(int id) {
this.id = id;
}
public int getId() {
return this.id;
}
public void setId(int id) {
this.id = id;
}
@Override
public String toString() {
return "PersonMoved [id=" + this.id + "]";
}
}
}
Pom:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>com.example</groupId>
<artifactId>so42969130</artifactId>
<version>2.0.0-BUILD-SNAPSHOT</version>
<packaging>jar</packaging>
<name>so42969130</name>
<description>Demo project for Spring Boot</description>
<parent>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
<version>1.5.2.RELEASE</version>
<relativePath/> <!-- lookup parent from repository -->
</parent>
<properties>
<project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
<project.reporting.outputEncoding>UTF-8</project.reporting.outputEncoding>
<java.version>1.8</java.version>
</properties>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-integration</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.integration</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-integration-amqp</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.integration</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-integration-java-dsl</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-test</artifactId>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
</project>
Result:
2017-03-23 09:56:57.501 INFO 75217 --- [ask-scheduler-2] .s.i.a.AbstractCorrelatingMessageHandler :
Expiring MessageGroup with correlationKey[123]
[PersonNameChanged [id=123], PersonMoved [id=123]]
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