Kombu Heartbeating under librabbitmq

[Dayton Gomez]

Hello!

I've been using Kombu for some microservice experimentation recently. I've noticed that librabbitmq is significantly faster than amqp (which is no doubt why kombu tries to use it first). However, I notice the transport for librabbit doesn't use heartbeating. Unfortunately, the systems we use may be terminated at any time (they are very ephemeral), and the timeout-less connections pile up and kill the rabbit server. So. I've tried forcing the timeout with transport_options, which does keep the piles from happening. Sadly, with a quiet system, I've noticed the rabbitmq connection invariably goes away, and the consumers don't always wake up properly.

To get to the point: is this functionality on a roadmap? I notice that librabbmq.Connection seems to have a heartbeat function, so the groundwork is there. It looks like kombu itself needs to use it.

Thanks much.