Reconnect if RabbitMQ server restarts

[imboxswedenab]

Reconnect if RabbitMQ server restarts

[squaremo]

In this case, once the rabbit.js connections are down, your SockJS connections are no good either. So I think you'll have to close those as well, and force the clients (i.e., the code running in browsers) to reconnect -- their messages are going nowhere in the meantime anyway.

The alternative is to buffer messages (from the browser) while RabbitMQ is offline, but I think that's more complicated for no particular gain. If you want reliability, you can't really mask the fact that the browser is going to have to retry things (whether it's replaying messages, or reconnecting, or whatever).

[imboxswedenab]

Might just be best to let the node server crash and have forever restart it then i think.

Thanks for you reply squaremo and thank you for a fantastic lib!

[squaremo]

Might just be best to let the node server crash and have forever restart it then i think.

Yes, that's reasonable -- that way you can be confident all the resources will be freed up (although, it's not an excuse not to try and clean up ...).