EasyNetQ: Changes to Conventions With Version 0.18

TL:DR: Exchange and queue names used to have ‘.’ replaced with ‘_’. From version 0.18 this is no longer the case.

Yesterday I announced version 0.18 of EasyNetQ. The big change was the addition of polymorphic publish and subscribe.

I forgot to mention that there’s a slight change to the conventions that EasyNetQ uses, that might affect you when you upgrade.

EasyNetQ’s publish-subscribe pattern is implemented in AMQP as follows:

• A topic exchange named after the published type is created.
• A queue named by concatenating the published type and the subscriber id is created.
• The exchange is bound to the queue with the wildcard, ‘#’, binding key.

So if you have this code:

bus.Subscribe<MyMessage>("test", MessageHandler);
bus.Publish<MyMessage>(message);

Note, in my case MyMessage is in an assembly ‘EasyNetQ.Tests’ with the same namespace.

You will see this in the RabbitMQ management UI:

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Previously The exchange and queue names would have had the ‘.’ replaced with ‘_’: ‘EasyNetQ_Tests_MyMessage:EasyNetQ_tests’.

If you upgrade some services to version 0.18, but leave others at earlier version numbers, they won’t be able to communicate.