Connection to RabbitMQ

[shalu]

Hello Community Members,

I am trying to connect to RabbitMQ from SoapUi to write and retrieve messages for testing dependent services. I searched online for examples to connect to RabbitMQ from SoapUI pro/Ready Api but  cant find any .

Can one of you please help . I humbly request for a simple example as well if available which will help me to build cases for my need 

Thanking you

Shalu 

[Nastya_Khovrina · Accepted solution]

Hi Shalu,

Thank you for your post. ReadyAPI supports JMS message testing. RabbitMQ uses AMQP protocol as far as I know which we do not support. However, you can use a Groovy script using the RabbitMQ API to send messages to RabbitMQ. The JAVA doc for RabbitMQ is below.

https://www.rabbitmq.com/api-guide.html

https://www.rabbitmq.com/jms-client.html

[Olga_T]

Hi all,

@Nastya_Khovrina thank you for your time looking into this!

@shalu, does Nastya's reply answer your question? If so, could you please click the Accept as Solution button below her reply so that other users could find the answer easily in the future?

Thanks in advance.

[shalu]

  @Nastya_Khovrina 

Thank you!!

[SiKing]

Hello @Nastya_Khovrina,

I was wondering if you could clarify something for me:

From RabbitMQ documentation:

RabbitMQ is not a JMS provider but includes a plugin needed to support the JMS Queue and Topic messaging models.

And from ReadyAPI documetation:

You can configure a direct connection to the JMS provider from ReadyAPI without using any additional intermediaries.

So my question is: Can ReadyAPI talk to RabbitMQ that has JSM support enabled? If yes, how?

Also note that HermesJSM has been abandoned sometimes in 2011, and using Java8 (which ships with latest ReadyAPI) it no longer works.

Lastly, if anyone is interested: I ported the RabbitMQ tutorials to SoapUI. The MR can be found here; until the merge is accepted, you can find the SoapUI project here.

[Nastya_Khovrina]

SiKing,

In a theory, you should be able to connect if you do the following:

1. Put the JMS client libraries to the ReadyAPI_Install\bin\ext folder. 

2. Create a JMS Server and specify the following settings:

- Initial Context Class

- Provider URL

- Connection Factory JNDI Name

and credentials if needed.

So, I have several questions to you:

- Do you have a bindings file?

- Do you have a connection factory?

[SiKing]

So, I have several questions to you:

- Do you have a bindings file?

- Do you have a connection factory?

I have my RabbitMQ enabled for JMS, and I downloaded the vendor JMS file:

INFO: ".../Applications/ReadyAPI-2.5.0.app/Contents/Resources/app/bin/ext/rabbitmq-jms-1.11.0.jar" has been added to the classpath.

Using their documentation I tried various conbinations of javax.jms.ConnectionFactory, com.rabbitmq.jms.admin.RMQConnectionFactory, and com.rabbitmq.jms.admin.RMQObjectFactory, but in every case I only got:

Could not establish a JMS connection: javax.naming.NoInitialContextException:
  Cannot instantiate class: com.rabbitmq.jms.admin.RMQConnectionFactory
  [Root exception is java.lang.ClassCastException: com.rabbitmq.jms.admin.RMQConnectionFactory cannot be cast to javax.naming.spi.InitialContextFactory]

At this point I am not sure what else to try?

[Nastya_Khovrina]

Hi Siking,

I tried with the following settings:

Initial Context Class: com.sun.jndi.fscontext.RefFSContextFactory

Provider URL: file:/C:/Users/<myUserName>/AppData/Roaming/RabbitMQ/

ConnectionFactory JNDI Name: ConnectionFactory

And credentials for the "guest" user.

But, as far as I understand, you need to have the .bindings or configuration file and the Connection Factory.

Also, I placed the following files to the <ReadyAPI_Install>\bin\ext folder:

- providerutil.jar

- fscontext.jar

- amqp-client-3.1.5.jar

- rabbitmq-jms-1.0.5.jar

But, it doesn't work on my side. 

Since I'm not aware of the RabbitMQ specifics I cannot be helpful here.

[SiKing]

But, as far as I understand, you need to have the .bindings or configuration file and the Connection Factory.

I am not sure what the bindings file is. For comparison I tried to connect to the ActiveMQ as described here, and it works as advertised! There is no mention of a bindings file anywhere.

[Nastya_Khovrina]

You will need to configure JNDI. This article should be helpful for you: https://knowledge.safe.com/questions/31256/rabbitmq-jms-client-configuration.html