How to get Spring RabbitMQ to create a new Queue?

Question

In my (limited) experience with rabbit-mq, if you create a new listener for a queue that doesn't exist yet, the queue is automatically created. I'm trying to use the Spring AMQP project with rabbit-mq to set up a listener, and I'm getting an error instead. This is my xml config:

<rabbit:connection-factory id="rabbitConnectionFactory" host="172.16.45.1" username="test" password="password" />

<rabbit:listener-container connection-factory="rabbitConnectionFactory"  >
    <rabbit:listener ref="testQueueListener" queue-names="test" />
</rabbit:listener-container>

<bean id="testQueueListener" class="com.levelsbeyond.rabbit.TestQueueListener"> 
</bean>

I get this in my RabbitMq logs:

=ERROR REPORT==== 3-May-2013::23:17:24 ===
connection <0.1652.0>, channel 1 - soft error:
{amqp_error,not_found,"no queue 'test' in vhost '/'",'queue.declare'}

And a similar error from AMQP:

2013-05-03 23:17:24,059 ERROR [org.springframework.amqp.rabbit.listener.SimpleMessageListenerContainer] (SimpleAsyncTaskExecutor-1) - Consumer received fatal exception on startup
org.springframework.amqp.rabbit.listener.FatalListenerStartupException: Cannot prepare queue for listener. Either the queue doesn't exist or the broker will not allow us to use it.

It would seem from the stack trace that the queue is getting created in a "passive" mode- Can anyone point out how I would create the queue not using the passive mode so I don't see this error? Or am I missing something else?

Answer 1

Older thread, but this still shows up pretty high on Google, so here's some newer information:

2015-11-23

Since Spring 4.2.x with Spring-Messaging and Spring-Amqp 1.4.5.RELEASE and Spring-Rabbit 1.4.5.RELEASE, declaring exchanges, queues and bindings has become very simple through an @Configuration class some annotations:

@EnableRabbit
@Configuration
@PropertySources({
    @PropertySource("classpath:rabbitMq.properties")
})
public class RabbitMqConfig {    
    private static final Logger logger = LoggerFactory.getLogger(RabbitMqConfig.class);

    @Value("${rabbitmq.host}")
    private String host;

    @Value("${rabbitmq.port:5672}")
    private int port;

    @Value("${rabbitmq.username}")
    private String username;

    @Value("${rabbitmq.password}")
    private String password;

    @Bean
    public ConnectionFactory connectionFactory() {
        CachingConnectionFactory connectionFactory = new CachingConnectionFactory(host, port);
        connectionFactory.setUsername(username);
        connectionFactory.setPassword(password);

        logger.info("Creating connection factory with: " + username + "@" + host + ":" + port);

        return connectionFactory;
    }

    /**
     * Required for executing adminstration functions against an AMQP Broker
     */
    @Bean
    public AmqpAdmin amqpAdmin() {
        return new RabbitAdmin(connectionFactory());
    }

    /**
     * This queue will be declared. This means it will be created if it does not exist. Once declared, you can do something
     * like the following:
     * 
     * @RabbitListener(queues = "#{@myDurableQueue}")
     * @Transactional
     * public void handleMyDurableQueueMessage(CustomDurableDto myMessage) {
     *    // Anything you want! This can also return a non-void which will queue it back in to the queue attached to @RabbitListener
     * }
     */
    @Bean
    public Queue myDurableQueue() {
        // This queue has the following properties:
        // name: my_durable
        // durable: true
        // exclusive: false
        // auto_delete: false
        return new Queue("my_durable", true, false, false);
    }

    /**
     * The following is a complete declaration of an exchange, a queue and a exchange-queue binding
     */
    @Bean
    public TopicExchange emailExchange() {
        return new TopicExchange("email", true, false);
    }

    @Bean
    public Queue inboundEmailQueue() {
        return new Queue("email_inbound", true, false, false);
    }

    @Bean
    public Binding inboundEmailExchangeBinding() {
        // Important part is the routing key -- this is just an example
        return BindingBuilder.bind(inboundEmailQueue()).to(emailExchange()).with("from.*");
    }
}

Some sources and documentation to help:

1. Spring annotations
2. Declaring/configuration RabbitMQ for queue/binding support
3. Direct exchange binding (for when routing key doesn't matter)

Note: Looks like I missed a version -- starting with Spring AMQP 1.5, things get even easier as you can declare the full binding right at the listener!