Wait for publish ack

[georg-schwarz]

Currently, you get an ACK for reaching RabbitMQ, but not for persisting the message.

[sonallux]

Here is the documentation of the publisher confirm feature of RabbitMQ. You can also find a nice article here, on how to set this up using the spring-amqp library, which is used by the outboxer.

As always implementing this should not be the problem, but finding the right approach how to handle a negative or missing ack is the difficult part here.

[alexlawrence]

Sorry for commenting on an older issue but has there been any progress towards integrating publisher confirms so far?

[georg-schwarz]

Hey,

Unfortunately no. We stopped active development on this repository a while ago...

Additionally, we think that there is no good "opinionated" way to provide such a feature as failure handling should always depend on the context and should be motivated by your domain.

Feel free to fork and adapt to your context. Above is a linked article that should explain how to do it.

[alexlawrence]

Hey, thanks for the fast answer and sorry for my late reply!

I completely agree with your reasoning. I was just looking for something that I can use for illustration purposes. Turns out a simple polling implementation can be done with a few lines of code and is sufficient for my needs. 🙂