Feature Request: sendToQueue

I may end up working on this but the feature request is to implement a sendToQueue function that should work just like the publish function except it’ll go to whatever queue you send the message to. So instead of relying on the routingKey you can have it sent directly to a queue.

Documentation for sendToQueue http://www.squaremobius.net/amqp.node/channel_api.html#channel_sendToQueue

[mxriverlynn]

when you send to queue, you are publishing through an exchange and exchanges require a routing key.

the exchange happens to be a special, built-in exchange, but it’s still an exchange.

this specialized exchange receives the queue name as the routing key, and uses that to route the message through the exchange and to the correct queue.

send to queue is useful when you are doing replies and a few other very specific scenarios. but in general, i considered it an anti-pattern that just makes demo code look easier.

it’s a rather deceptive implementation that caused me a lot of confusion when i first started learning RMQ.

[shawnHartsell]

In addition to what @derickbailey said…in RabbitMQ all messages route through some kind of exchange. You can use direct exchanges to achieve the “straight to queue” functionality @rg1220

The built-in default exchange is a direct exchange. Additionally, every queue that is created is automatically bound to the direct exchange with the routing key of the queue name. This means that if you publish a message to the default exchange and use your destination queue as the routing key, it will be delivered to that queue.

https://www.rabbitmq.com/tutorials/amqp-concepts.html