[ARTEMIS-5041] Purge on no consumers happens before reconnect is possible

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 2.37.0
• Component/s: Configuration
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Ryan Yeats
• Created: 09/Sep/24 18:44
• Updated: 09/Sep/24 18:44

Description

There is no timeout period to wait for consumers to failover and reconnect when a queue is configured to be purged when there are no consumers.  So i would like a configuration so there is a middle ground in cases where we generally expect a consumer to come back and don't want to lose messages but also want to keep the address from filling up so other consumers aren't affected when a consumer is unable to reconnect.

This is different from message expiry because we generally don't want the messages to expire just in extreme case where a consumer can't reconnect for a prolonged period we don't want the address filling up and affecting other consumers.

 

Maybe there is a better generalization than adding a delay configuration specifically for
purge-on-no-consumers to tell Artemis what to do with messages when there is no active consumer but the address hasn't filled up yet.