NOTICE

This module is presently in a difficult-to-maintain state, and caution should be used in using it.

• The OpenSSL version used by the librabbitmq-c library is end-of-life
• The code duplication in this module makes it very difficult to keep up with C library updates

There is a GitHub Discussion here regarding paths forward, and if you use this module then your input is requested.

It is important that if you use this module, that you mitigate these risks to your satisfaction, or to that of your organization.

Install

cpanm Net::AMQP::RabbitMQ

or

cpan Net::AMQP::RabbitMQ

Documentation

https://metacpan.org/pod/Net::AMQP::RabbitMQ

or once installed perldoc Net::AMQP::RabbitMQ

Tests

There are several environment variables you can set that influence the tests.

https://metacpan.org/pod/Net::AMQP::RabbitMQ#RUNNING-THE-TEST-SUITE

For developers/authors

Once you have cloned the repo, you will need to download the submodules.

git submodule init
git submodule update

When running your own tests, for quick access to a testing RabbitMQ service, consider CloudAMQP.

There are a few convenience scripts to help you out:

• local-tests-no-ssl - Convenience script to run tests on a local network without SSL at all.
• run-one-test - This script helps you quickly run a single test while working on this project.
• ci/run-ci-tests.sh - This script is what we run in GitHub Actions, it'll help you run the full suite.

To build a release

make distclean
perl Makefile.PL
make manifest
make dist

Known challenges

• In order to run test 024_boolean_header_fields.t, you need to have the web client for RabbitMQ enabled, and your test user must have access to it. This is because this test uses the web client to test specific use cases which require a literal Boolean type (which Perl lacks).

Special note for macOS

You need pkg-config working, especially for openssl. There are so many different ways to install dependencies, and so many different paths for them, it is becoming very difficult to guess where they will be.

As a result, we're shifting to using pkg-config for this. Please make sure that if you're running into any problems of missing symbols or misplaced files, that you check this first.

OpenSSL Compatibility

To date, OpenSSL v3 is supported.