Setting connection_timeout on a per-queue and per-consumer basis

[Nathan Voss]

According to the official RabbitMQ docs:

Starting with RabbitMQ 3.11.15, the timeout value can also be set on the per-queue and per-consumer basis.

It would be great if this functionality was exposed via the Pika library, perhaps as new 'consumer_timeout' arguments on the channel and queue-creation functions. 

This would allow simpler and more flexible means of handling messages that take a long time to process, as by default there is a server-wide limit set to 30 minutes, after which a consumer connection is forcefully severed.

[Luke Bakken]

Hello,

This is already supported by Pika by setting the  x-consumer-timeout argument when you declare your queue (the arguments parameter of queue_declare), or when you start your consumer (the arguments parameter of basic_consume).

Thanks,

Luke