how to mark a message as persistent using spring-rabbitmq?

Question

This is how I'm creating an exchange and binding a queue to it

<rabbit:topic-exchange id="dataExchange" name="MQ-EXCHANGE" durable="true">
        <rabbit:bindings>
            <rabbit:binding queue="COMM_QUEUE" pattern="queue.*" />
        </rabbit:bindings>
</rabbit:topic-exchange>

I have read a lot of posts on the Internet where it is written that a message is also needed to be marked persistent if it is to be secured in case rabbitmq or the queue crashes. But I couldn't figure out how to mark my messages persistent.

This is how I'm publishing the messages to the queue

    @Autowired
    private RabbitTemplate template;

    @Override
    public void produceMessage(Object message, String routingKey) {
        template.convertAndSend(routingKey, message);  
    }

I looked for different API methods to know this and also tried to look for any specific property that I could configure in the XML but couldn't find a way. Any guidance ?

Answer 1

The default delivery mode (in MessageProperties) is PERSISTENT. See here.

To make it non-persistent you need to use a convertAndSend(...) method with a MessagePostProcessor to set the deliveryMode property.