REST API for rabbitmq

Question

Is there a way how can I send data to RabbitMQ from $.ajax?

My application is made up of several thousands web-clients (written on js) and WCF REST service and now I am trying to figure out how can I create a scalable point for my application. The idea is to have a rabbitmq instance which receives messages from js clients placed on one side, and instances of WCF Workflow Services which are taking pending messages from the queue.

I understand that AMQP and HTTP is pretty different things.

So the question is - is there a REST interface for rabbit mq or some sort of gateway for it

Answer 1

There are lots of 3rd-party HTTP plugins listed on RabbitMQ's developer tools page, and they also offer an experimental JSON-RPC plugin that allows for AMQP over HTTP access.

You should also take a look at RabbitJS and SockJS to see what the Rabbit team is doing to bring messaging to the worlds of node.js and WebSockets, respectively.

Answer 2

The RabbitMQ REST API documentation for the 3.4.3 release can be found here:

http://hg.rabbitmq.com/rabbitmq-management/raw-file/rabbitmq_v3_4_3/priv/www/api/index.html

It also allows to publish messages besides management tasks.

Important note from the linked documentation:

Please note that the publish / get paths in the HTTP API are intended for injecting test messages, diagnostics etc - they do not implement reliable delivery and so should be treated as a sysadmin's tool rather than a general API for messaging.