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Chapter 3. Connecting to AMQ

In an integration, you can obtain messages from a Red Hat AMQ broker or publish messages to a Red Hat AMQ broker. Red Hat AMQ uses the OpenWire protocol for communication between clients and message brokers. To communicate with the following broker types, use the Red Hat AMQ connector to create a connection to the broker of interest:

  • Apache ActiveMQ broker that does not support AMQP
  • AMQ 6 broker

To communicate with one of the following broker types, use the AMQP connector to create a connection to the broker of interest:

  • Apache ActiveMQ broker that supports AMQP
  • Apache ActiveMQ Artemis
  • AMQ 7 broker
  • EnMasse, which is an open source messaging platform

To use the Red Hat AMQ connector, see:

3.1. Creating an AMQ connection

In an integration, to obtain messages from or to publish messages to:

  • An Apache ActiveMQ broker that does not support AMQP
  • An AMQ 6 broker

Create a Red Hat AMQ connection, which you can add to an integration.

Prerequisites

For the Red Hat AMQ broker that you want to connect to, you have the following:

  • Broker URL
  • User account credentials
  • Broker’s PEM certificate text

Procedure

  1. In Fuse Online, in the left panel, click Connections to display any available connections.
  2. In the upper right, click Create Connection to display connectors.
  3. Click the Red Hat AMQ connector.
  4. Configure the connection by entering:

    1. In the Broker URL field, enter the location that you want to send data to or obtain data from, for example, tcp://localhost:61616.
    2. In the User Name field, enter the user name for the account that you want to use to access this broker.
    3. In the Password field, enter the password for the account that you want to use to access this broker.
    4. In the Client ID field, enter the ID that allows connections to close and reopen without missing messages. The destination type must be a topic.
    5. If this connection will be used in a development environment, you can save some time by disabling Check Certificates. Disabling the checking of certificates is a convenience for development environments. For secure production environments, always enable Check Certificates.
    6. In the Broker Certificate field, paste the Red Hat AMQ broker’s PEM certificate text. This is required except when you disable checking the certificates.
    7. In the Client Certificate field, paste the Red Hat client’s PEM certificate text. Content in this field is always optional.
  5. Click Validate. Fuse Online immediately tries to validate the connection and displays a message that indicates whether validation is successful. If validation fails, revise the configuration details as needed and try again.
  6. If validation is successful, click Next.
  7. In the Connection Name field, enter your choice of a name that helps you distinguish this connection from any other connections. For example, you might enter Red Hat AMQ 1.
  8. In the Description field, optionally enter any information that is helpful to know about this connection. For example, enter Sample Red Hat AMQ connection that uses a provided broker.
  9. In the upper right, click Create to see that the connection you created is now available. If you entered the example name, you would see that Red Hat AMQ 1 appears as a connection that you can choose to add to an integration.

3.2. Adding an AMQ connection to trigger integration execution upon receiving messages

To trigger execution of an integration upon receiving a message from a Red Hat AMQ broker, add a Red Hat AMQ connection as the start connection.

Prerequisite

You created a Red Hat AMQ connection to the Red Hat AMQ broker that you want to obtain messages from.

Procedure

  1. In the Fuse Online panel on the left, click Integrations.
  2. Click Create Integration.
  3. On the Choose a Start Connection page, click the Red Hat AMQ connection that you want to use to start the integration.
  4. On the Choose an Action page, click the Subscribe for messages action to receive messages from the queue or topic that you specify.
  5. To configure the action:

    1. In the Destination Name field, enter the name of the queue or topic to receive data from.
    2. For the Destination Type, accept Queue or select Topic.
    3. In the Durable Subscription ID field, to allow connections to close and reopen without missing messages, enter the durable subscription ID. The destination type must be a topic.
    4. In the Message Selector field, if you want to receive only data that satisfies a particular condition, enter a filter expression.

      A message selector is a string that contains an expression. The syntax of the expression is based on a subset of the SQL92 conditional expression syntax. The message selector in the following example selects any message that has a NewsType property whose value is set to Sports or Opinion:

      NewsType = ’Sports’ OR NewsType = ’Opinion’

      The message consumer receives only those messages whose headers and properties match the message selector expression. A message selector cannot select messages on the basis of the content of the message body.

  6. Click Next to specify the action’s output type.
  7. In the Select Type field, if the data type does not need to be known, accept Type specification not required and then, at the bottom, click Done. You do not need to follow the rest of these instructions.

    Otherwise, select one of the following as the schema type:

    • JSON schema is a document that describes the structure of JSON data. The document’s media type is application/schema+json.
    • JSON instance is a document that contains JSON data. The document’s media type is application/json.
    • XML schema is a document that describes the structure of XML data. The document’s file extension is .xsd.
    • XML instance is a document that contains XML data. The document’s file extension is .xml.
  8. In the Definition input box, paste a definition that conforms to the schema type you selected. For example, if you select JSON schema then you would paste the content of a JSON schema file, which has a media type of application/schema+json.
  9. In the Data Type Name field, enter a name that you choose for the data type. For example, if you are specifying a JSON schema for vendors then you might specify Vendor as the data type name.

    You will see this data type name when you are creating or editing an integration that uses the connection for which you are specifying this type. Fuse Online displays the type name in the integration visualization panel and in the data mapper.

  10. In the Data Type Description field, provide information that helps you distinguish this type. This description appears in the data mapper when you hover over the step that processes this type.
  11. Click Done.

Result

The connection appears at the beginning of the integration flow.

3.3. Publishing AMQ messages to finish an integration

To finish a simple integration by publishing messages to a Red Hat AMQ broker, add a Red Hat AMQ connection as the simple integration’s finish connection.

Prerequisites

  • You created a connection to the Red Hat AMQ broker that you want to publish messages to.
  • You are creating an integration and Fuse Online is prompting you to choose the finish connection, or you are editing an integration to change the finish connection.

Procedure

  1. On the Choose a Finish Connection page, click the Red Hat AMQ connection that you want to use to finish the integration.
  2. On the Choose an Action page, click the Publish messages action to publish messages to the queue or topic that you specify.
  3. In the Destination Name field, enter the name of the queue or topic to send messages to.
  4. For the Destination Type, accept Queue or select Topic.
  5. Select Persistent to guarantee message delivery even if a connection fails.
  6. Click Next to specify the action’s input/output type.
  7. In the Select Type field, if the data type does not need to be known, accept Type specification not required and then, at the bottom, click Done. You do not need to follow the rest of these instructions.

    Otherwise, select one of the following as the schema type:

    • JSON schema is a document that describes the structure of JSON data. The document’s media type is application/schema+json.
    • JSON instance is a document that contains JSON data. The document’s media type is application/json.
    • XML schema is a document that describes the structure of XML data. The document’s file extension is .xsd.
    • XML instance is a document that contains XML data. The document’s file extension is .xml.
  8. In the Definition input box, paste a definition that conforms to the schema type you selected. For example, if you select JSON schema then you would paste the content of a JSON schema file, which has a media type of application/schema+json.
  9. In the Data Type Name field, enter a name that you choose for the data type. For example, if you are specifying a JSON schema for vendors then you might specify Vendor as the data type name.

    You will see this data type name when you are creating or editing an integration that uses the connection for which you are specifying this type. Fuse Online displays the type name in the integration visualization panel and in the data mapper.

  10. In the Data Type Description field, provide information that helps you distinguish this type. This description appears in the data mapper when you hover over the step that processes this type.
  11. Click Done.

Result

The connection appears at the end of the integration flow.

3.4. Publishing AMQ messages in the middle of an integration

In the middle of an integration, to publish messages to a Red Hat AMQ broker, add a Red Hat AMQ connection to the middle of a flow.

Prerequisites

  • You created a connection to the Red Hat AMQ broker that you want to publish messages to.
  • You are creating or editing a flow and Fuse Online is prompting you to choose a step. Or, Fuse Online is prompting you to choose a finish connection.

Procedure

  1. Click the Red Hat AMQ connection that you want in the middle of the flow.
  2. On the Choose an Action page, select one of the following actions:

    • Publish messages action to publish messages to the queue or topic that you specify. To configure this action:

      1. In the Destination Name field, enter the name of the queue or topic to send messages to.
      2. For the Destination Type, accept Queue or select Topic.
      3. Select Persistent to guarantee message delivery even if a connection fails.
    • Request response using messages to send messages to the JMS destination that you specify and receive a response. To configure this action:

      1. In the Destination Name field, enter the name of the queue or topic to send messages to.
      2. For the Destination Type, accept Queue or select Topic.
      3. In the Message Selector field, if you want to receive only responses that satisfy a particular condition, enter a filter expression.

        A message selector is a string that contains an expression. The syntax of the expression is based on a subset of the SQL92 conditional expression syntax. The message selector in the following example selects any message that has a NewsType property whose value is set to Sports or Opinion:

        NewsType = ’Sports’ OR NewsType = ’Opinion’

        The message consumer receives only those messages whose headers and properties match the message selector expression. A message selector cannot select messages on the basis of the content of the message body.

      4. In the Named Reply To field, enter the name of a queue or topic. The destination sends its response to this queue or topic.
      5. Select Persistent to guarantee message delivery even if a connection fails.
      6. In the Response Time Out field, specify the number of milliseconds that this connection waits for a response message before throwing a runtime exception. The default is 5000 milliseconds (5 seconds).
  3. Click Next to specify the action’s input type and then the action’s output type.
  4. In the Select Type field, if the data type does not need to be known, accept Type specification not required and then, at the bottom, click Done. You do not need to follow the rest of these instructions.

    Otherwise, select one of the following as the schema type:

    • JSON schema is a document that describes the structure of JSON data. The document’s media type is application/schema+json.
    • JSON instance is a document that contains JSON data. The document’s media type is application/json.
    • XML schema is a document that describes the structure of XML data. The document’s file extension is .xsd.
    • XML instance is a document that contains XML data. The document’s file extension is .xml.
  5. In the Definition input box, paste a definition that conforms to the schema type you selected. For example, if you select JSON schema then you would paste the content of a JSON schema file, which has a media type of application/schema+json.
  6. In the Data Type Name field, enter a name that you choose for the data type. For example, if you are specifying a JSON schema for vendors then you might specify Vendor as the data type name.

    You will see this data type name when you are creating or editing an integration that uses the connection for which you are specifying this type. Fuse Online displays the type name in the integration visualization panel and in the data mapper.

  7. In the Data Type Description field, provide information that helps you distinguish this type. This description appears in the data mapper when you hover over the step that processes this type.
  8. Click Done.

Result

The connection appears in the integration flow in the location where you added it.