Chapter 6. Network connections 6.1. Connection URLs Connection URLs encode the information used to establish new connections. Connection URL syntax Scheme - The connection transport, either amqp for unencrypted TCP or amqps for TCP with SSL/TLS encryption. Host - The remote network host. The value can be a hostname or a numeric IP address. IPv6 addresses must be enclosed in square brackets. Port - The remote network port. This value is optional. The default value is 5672 for the amqp scheme and 5671 for the amqps scheme. Connection URL examples 6.2. Creating outgoing connections To connect to a remote server, call the Container.connect() method with a connection URL . This is typically done inside the MessagingHandler.on_start() method. Example: Creating outgoing connections class ExampleHandler(MessagingHandler): def on_start(self, event): event.container.connect("amqp://example.com") def on_connection_opened(self, event): print("Connection", event.connection , "is open") For information about creating secure connections, see Chapter 7, Security . 6.3. Configuring reconnect Reconnect allows a client to recover from lost connections. It is used to ensure that the components in a distributed system reestablish communication after temporary network or component failures. AMQ Python enables reconnect by default. If a connection is lost or a connection attempt fails, the client will try again after a brief delay. The delay increases exponentially for each new attempt, up to a default maximum of 10 seconds. To disable reconnect, set the reconnect connection option to False . Example: Disabling reconnect container.connect("amqp://example.com", reconnect=False ) To control the delays between connection attempts, define a class implementing the reset() and () methods and set the reconnect connection option to an instance of that class. Example: Configuring reconnect class ExampleReconnect(object): def __init__(self): self.delay = 0 def reset(self): self.delay = 0 def (self): if self.delay == 0: self.delay = 0.1 else: self.delay = min(10, 2 * self.delay) return self.delay container.connect("amqp://example.com", reconnect=ExampleReconnect()) The method returns the delay in seconds. The reset method is called once before the reconnect process begins. 6.4. Configuring failover AMQ Python allows you to configure multiple connection endpoints. If connecting to one fails, the client attempts to connect to the in the list. If the list is exhausted, the process starts over. To specify multiple connection endpoints, set the urls connection option to a list of connection URLs. Example: Configuring failover urls = ["amqp://alpha.example.com", "amqp://beta.example.com"] container.connect(urls=urls) It is an error to use the url and urls options at the same time. 6.5. Accepting incoming connections AMQ Python can accept inbound network connections, enabling you to build custom messaging servers. To start listening for connections, use the Container.listen() method with a URL containing the local host address and port to listen on. Example: Accepting incoming connections class ExampleHandler(MessagingHandler): def on_start(self, event): event.container.listen("0.0.0.0") def on_connection_opened(self, event): print("New incoming connection", event.connection ) The special IP address 0.0.0.0 listens on all available IPv4 interfaces. To listen on all IPv6 interfaces, use [::0] . For more information, see the server receive.py example .

Commands:
scheme://host[:port]
amqps://example.com amqps://example.net:56720 amqp://127.0.0.1 amqp://[::1]:2000
class ExampleHandler(MessagingHandler): def on_start(self, event): event.container.connect("amqp://example.com") def on_connection_opened(self, event): print("Connection", event.connection , "is open")
container.connect("amqp://example.com", reconnect=False )
class ExampleReconnect(object): def __init__(self): self.delay = 0 def reset(self): self.delay = 0 def next(self): if self.delay == 0: self.delay = 0.1 else: self.delay = min(10, 2 * self.delay) return self.delay container.connect("amqp://example.com", reconnect=ExampleReconnect())
urls = ["amqp://alpha.example.com", "amqp://beta.example.com"] container.connect(urls=urls)
class ExampleHandler(MessagingHandler): def on_start(self, event): event.container.listen("0.0.0.0") def on_connection_opened(self, event): print("New incoming connection", event.connection )