Bunny: all documentation guides
Guide list
Bunny documentation is organized as a number of guides, covering all kinds of topics.
We recommend that you read these guides, if possible, in this order:
An overview of Bunny with a quick tutorial that helps you to get started with it. It should take about
20 minutes to read and study the provided code examples.
This guide covers:
- AMQP 0.9.1 model overview
- What are channels
- What are vhosts
- What are queues
- What are exchanges
- What are bindings
- What are AMQP 0.9.1 classes and methods
This guide covers:
- How to connect to RabbitMQ with Bunny 0.9+
- How to use connection URI to connect to RabbitMQ (also: in PaaS environments such as Heroku and CloudFoundry)
- How to open a channel
- How to close a channel
- How to disconnect
This guide covers:
- How to declare AMQP queues with Bunny
- Queue properties
- How to declare server-named queues
- How to declare temporary exclusive queues
- How to consume messages ("push API")
- How to fetch messages ("pull API")
- Message and delivery properties
- Message acknowledgements
- How to purge queues
- How to delete queues
- Other topics related to queues
This guide covers:
- Exchange types
- How to declare AMQP exchanges with Bunny
- How to publish messages
- Exchange properties
- Fanout exchanges
- Direct exchanges
- Topic exchanges
- Default exchange
- Message and delivery properties
- Message routing
- Bindings
- How to delete exchanges
- Other topics related to exchanges and publishing
This guide covers:
- How to bind exchanges to queues
- How to unbind exchanges from queues
- Other topics related to bindings
This guide covers:
- Topics related to durability of exchanges and queues
- Durability of messages
This guide covers:
- Concurrency in Bunny
- Correctness and concurrency safety of key public API classes and methods
- Other topics related to concurrency
This guide covers RabbitMQ extensions and how they are used in Bunny:
- How to use Publishing Confirms with Bunny
- How to use exchange-to-exchange bindings
- How to the alternate exchange extension
- How to set per-queue message TTL
- How to set per-message TTL
- What are consumer cancellation notifications and how to use them
- Message dead lettering and the dead letter exchange
- How to use sender-selected routing (
CC and BCC headers)
This guide covers:
- AMQP 0.9.1 protocol exceptions
- How to deal with network failures
- Other things that may go wrong
This guide covers:
- How to use TLS (SSL) connections to RabbitMQ with Bunny
This guide covers:
- What to check when your apps that use Bunny and RabbitMQ misbehave
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