loopback-connector-amqp

Loopback connector that forwards every API call to an AMQP server and receives the responses to answer the original API call.

Features

This connector forwards the call on static, instance method and change-stream request. Everything is done using native AMQP functions such as reply_to and correlation_id. See bellow the topics used to transmit the requests and listen to model's change.

Install

Just run npm

npm install --save loopback-connector-amqp

Settings

Connectors settings through datasources.json:

"sourcename": {
    "name": "sourcename",
    "connector": "amqp",
    "host": "127.0.0.1",
    "port": "5672",
    "login": "user",
    "password": "password",
    "exchange": "loopback",
    "binding" : "loopback"
}

• name is the sourcename of the datasource, use this name in the model-config.json file.
• connector should be "amqp" as the node module is called loopback-connector-amqp
• host (default: 127.0.0.1) and port (default: 5672) of your AMQP server
• login and password to connect to your AMQP server (default is empty)
• exchange name of the AMQP exchange to use (default: loopback). If the exchange doesn't exist, it will be created.
• binding name of the binding prefix to use to create the topics.

Topics

The request are sent on the AMQP exchange using the following topic format:

<binding>.request.<model>.<id|static>.<method>

where

• <binding> is the name of the binding used in the settings
• request is hard coded for homogeneity with project loopback-amqp-backend
• <model> is the name of the model concerned by the request
• <id> or "static" to specify a specific instance of the model or a static method.
• <method> name of the method called (also works with remote methods)

Request Handler

A specific request handler has been build to process the request and respond to them using loopback: https://github.com/Weaverize/loopback-amqp-backend

Credit

Copyright (c) 2018, Weaverize SAS. All rights reserved. Contact: [email protected].