[QPID-4063] Allow user to assign the name of the source queue when creating an exchange or dynamic route.

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Trivial
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.17
• Fix Version/s: 0.18
• Component/s: C++ Broker
• Assignee: Ken Giusti
• Reporter: Ken Giusti
• Created: 12/Jun/12 18:54
• Updated: 29/Jul/13 19:05
• Resolved: 27/Mar/13 19:02

Description

When a federation route is created - either an "exchange" or a "dynamic" route - a dedicated queue is created on the source broker. This queue is used to hold messages that are forwarded to the remote broker.

This queue is created by federation, and assigned a (somewhat) randomized name.

It should be possible - as an option - to allow the user to specify the name for that queue. This would be useful for a couple of reasons...

1) Monitoring the state of the queue would be easier if it had a meaningful name.
2) "Power Users" could specify an existing queue, which could then be used as a target for messages that should be forwarded over the federation,
3) Allow several routes share the same queue (if msg ordering need not be preserved) to fan out work across a federation.