Metadata-Version: 1.0
Name: carrot
Version: 0.4.0
Summary: AMQP Messaging Framework for Python
Home-page: http://github.com/ask/carrot/
Author: Ask Solem
Author-email: askh@opera.com
License: UNKNOWN
Description: ##############################################
        carrot - AMQP Messaging Framework for Python
        ##############################################
        
        :Version: 0.4.0
        
        Introduction
        ------------
        
        `carrot` is an `AMQP`_ messaging queue framework. AMQP is the Advanced Message
        Queuing Protocol, an open standard protocol for message orientation, queuing,
        routing, reliability and security.
        
        The aim of `carrot` is to make messaging in Python as easy as possible by
        providing a high-level interface for producing and consuming messages. At the
        same time it is a goal to re-use what is already available as much as possible.
        
        `carrot` supprots pluggable messaging back-ends, so it is possible to support
        several messaging systems. At the time of release, the `py-amqplib`_ based
        backend is considered suitable for production use.
        
        Several AMQP message broker implementations exists, including `RabbitMQ`_,
        `ZeroMQ`_ and `Apache ActiveMQ`_. You'll need to have one of these installed,
        personally we've been using `RabbitMQ`_.
        
        Before you start playing with ``carrot``, you should probably read up on
        AMQP, and you could start with the excellent article about using RabbitMQ
        under Python, `Rabbits and warrens`_. For more detailed information, you can
        refer to the `Wikipedia article about AMQP`_.
        
        .. _`RabbitMQ`: http://www.rabbitmq.com/
        .. _`ZeroMQ`: http://www.zeromq.org/
        .. _`AMQP`: http://amqp.org
        .. _`Apache ActiveMQ`: http://activemq.apache.org/
        .. _`Django`: http://www.djangoproject.com/
        .. _`Rabbits and warrens`: http://blogs.digitar.com/jjww/2009/01/rabbits-and-warrens/
        .. _`py-amqplib`: http://barryp.org/software/py-amqplib/
        .. _`Wikipedia article about AMQP`: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMQP
        
        Documentation
        -------------
        
        Carrot is using Sphinx, and the latest documentation is available at GitHub:
        
        http://github.com/ask/carrot/
        
        Installation
        ============
        
        You can install ``carrot`` either via the Python Package Index (PyPI)
        or from source.
        
        To install using ``pip``,::
        
        $ pip install carrot
        
        
        To install using ``easy_install``,::
        
        $ easy_install carrot
        
        
        If you have downloaded a source tarball you can install it
        by doing the following,::
        
        $ python setup.py build
        # python setup.py install # as root
        
        
        Terminology
        ===========
        
        There are some concepts you should be familiar with before starting:
        
        * Publishers
        
        Publishers sends messages to an exchange.
        
        * Exchanges
        
        Messages are sent to exchanges. Exchanges are named and can be
        configured to use one of several routing algorithms. The exchange
        routes the messages to consumers by matching the routing key in the
        message with the routing key the consumer provides when binding to
        the exchange.
        
        * Consumers
        
        Consumers declares a queue, binds it to a exchange and receives
        messages from it.
        
        * Queues
        
        Queues receive messages sent to exchanges. The queues are declared
        by consumers.
        
        * Routing keys
        
        Every message has a routing key.  The interpretation of the routing
        key depends on the exchange type. There are four default exchange
        types defined by the AMQP standard, and vendors can define custom
        types (so see your vendors manual for details).
        
        These are the default exchange types defined by AMQP/0.8:
        
        * Direct exchange
        
        Matches if the routing key property of the message and
        the ``routing_key`` attribute of the consumer are identical.
        
        * Fan-out exchange
        
        Always matches, even if the binding does not have a routing
        key.
        
        * Topic exchange
        
        Matches the routing key property of the message by a primitive
        pattern matching scheme. The message routing key then consists
        of words separated by dots (``"."``, like domain names), and
        two special characters are available; star (``"*"``) and hash
        (``"#"``). The star matches any word, and the hash matches
        zero or more words. For example ``"*.stock.#"`` matches the
        routing keys ``"usd.stock"`` and ``"eur.stock.db"`` but not
        ``"stock.nasdaq"``.
        
        
        Examples
        ========
        
        Creating a connection
        ---------------------
        
        You can set up a connection by creating an instance of
        ``carrot.messaging.AMQPConnection``, with the appropriate options for
        your AMQP server:
        
        >>> from carrot.connection import AMQPConnection
        >>> amqpconn = AMQPConnection(hostname="localhost", port=5672,
        ...                           userid="test", password="test",
        ...                           vhost="test")
        
        
        If you're using Django you can use the
        ``carrot.connection.DjangoAMQPConnection`` class instead, which loads the
        connection settings from your ``settings.py``::
        
        AMQP_SERVER = "localhost"
        AMQP_PORT = 5672
        AMQP_USER = "test"
        AMQP_PASSWORD = "secret"
        AMQP_VHOST = "/test"
        
        Then create a connection by doing:
        
        >>> from carrot.connection import DjangoAMQPConnection
        >>> amqpconn = DjangoAMQPConnection()
        
        
        
        Receiving messages using a Consumer
        -----------------------------------
        
        First we open up a Python shell and start a message consumer.
        
        This consumer declares a queue named ``"feed"``, receiving messages with
        the routing key ``"importer"`` from the ``"feed"`` exchange.
        
        The example then uses the consumers ``wait()`` method to go into consume
        mode, where it continuously polls the queue for new messages, and when a
        message is received it passes the message to all registered callbacks.
        
        >>> from carrot.messaging import Consumer
        >>> consumer = Consumer(connection=amqpconn, queue="feed",
        ...                     exchange="feed", routing_key="importer")
        >>> def import_feed_callback(message_data, message)
        ...     feed_url = message_data["import_feed"]
        ...     print("Got feed import message for: %s" % feed_url)
        ...     # something importing this feed url
        ...     # import_feed(feed_url)
        ...     message.ack()
        >>> consumer.register_callback(import_feed_callback)
        >>> consumer.wait() # Go into the consumer loop.
        
        Sending messages using a Publisher
        ----------------------------------
        
        Then we open up another Python shell to send some messages to the consumer
        defined in the last section.
        
        >>> from carrot.messaging import Publisher
        >>> publisher = Publisher(connection=amqpconn,
        ...                       exchange="feed", routing_key="importer")
        >>> publisher.send({"import_feed": "http://cnn.com/rss/edition.rss"})
        >>> publisher.close()
        
        
        Look in the first Python shell again (where ``consumer.wait()`` is running),
        where the following text has been printed to the screen::
        
        Got feed import message for: http://cnn.com/rss/edition.rss
        
        
        By default every message is encoded using `JSON`_, so sending
        Python data structures like dictionaries and lists works. If you want
        to support more complicated data, you might want to configure the publisher
        and consumer to use something like ``pickle``, by providing them with
        an ``encoder`` and ``decoder`` respectively.
        
        .. _`JSON`: http://www.json.org/
        
        
        Receiving messages without a callback
        --------------------------------------
        
        You can also poll the queue manually, by using the ``fetch`` method.
        This method returns a ``Message`` object, from where you can get the
        message body, de-serialize the body to get the data, acknowledge, reject or
        re-queue the message.
        
        >>> consumer = Consumer(connection=amqpconn, queue="feed",
        ...                     exchange="feed", routing_key="importer")
        >>> message = consumer.fetch()
        >>> if message:
        ...    message_data = message.decode()
        ...    message.ack()
        ... else:
        ...     # No messages waiting on the queue.
        >>> consumer.close()
        
        Sub-classing the messaging classes
        ----------------------------------
        
        The ``Consumer``, and ``Publisher`` classes can also be subclassed. Thus you
        can define the above publisher and consumer like so:
        
        >>> from carrot.messaging import Publisher, Consumer
        
        >>> class FeedPublisher(Publisher):
        ...     exchange = "feed"
        ...     routing_key = "importer"
        ...
        ...     def feed_import(feed_url):
        ...         return self.send({"action": "import_feed",
        ...                           "feed_url": feed_url})
        
        >>> class FeedConsumer(Consumer):
        ...     queue = "feed"
        ...     exchange = "feed"
        ...     routing_key = "importer"
        ...
        ...     def receive(self, message_data, message):
        ...         action = message_data["action"]
        ...         if action == "import_feed":
        ...             # something importing this feed
        ...             # import_feed(message_data["feed_url"])
        message.ack()
        ...         else:
        ...             raise Exception("Unknown action: %s" % action)
        
        >>> publisher = FeedPublisher(connection=amqpconn)
        >>> publisher.import_feed("http://cnn.com/rss/edition.rss")
        >>> publisher.close()
        
        >>> consumer = FeedConsumer(connection=amqpconn)
        >>> consumer.wait() # Go into the consumer loop.
        
        License
        =======
        
        This software is licensed under the ``New BSD License``. See the ``LICENSE``
        file in the top distribution directory for the full license text.
        
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