Common Lisp API for RabbitMQ

[Elias Mårtenson]

I had a need for Common Lisp integration with RabbitMQ, so I had a look at the recommended libraries as documented here: http://www.rabbitmq.com/devtools.html

As it turns out, the ones that were mentioned on the web site are not reasonable to use for production purposes. They're either severely outdated, or have both build- and performance issues.

I decided to take an easier route (as opposed to implementing the full AMQP protocol) and built a much thinner library on top of rabbitmq-c. This turned out to be quite successful, so my library is now part of Quicklisp[1].

The project URL on github is: https://github.com/lokedhs/cl-rabbit

Regards,

Elias

[1] Quicklisp is the Common Lisp version of "pip" for Python or CPAN for Perl.

[Michael Klishin]

 On 21 December 2014 at 20:08:14, Elias Mårtenson (lok...@gmail.com) wrote:
> As it turns out, the ones that were mentioned on the web site are
> not reasonable to use for production purposes. They're either
> severely outdated, or have both build- and performance issues.
>
> I decided to take an easier route (as opposed to implementing
> the full AMQP protocol) and built a much thinner library on top
> of rabbitmq-c. This turned out to be quite successful, so my library
> is now part of Quicklisp[1].
>
> The project URL on github is: https://github.com/lokedhs/cl-rabbit

Elias,

Thank you. Would you suggest that we recommend your client? Does it work on Windows,
for example?
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MK

Staff Software Engineer, Pivotal/RabbitMQ

[Elias Mårtenson]

On Monday, 22 December 2014 01:09:32 UTC+8, Michael Klishin wrote:

 

 On 21 December 2014 at 20:08:14, Elias Mårtenson (lok...@gmail.com) wrote:
> As it turns out, the ones that were mentioned on the web site are  
> not reasonable to use for production purposes. They're either  
> severely outdated, or have both build- and performance issues.  
>  
> I decided to take an easier route (as opposed to implementing  
> the full AMQP protocol) and built a much thinner library on top  
> of rabbitmq-c. This turned out to be quite successful, so my library  
> is now part of Quicklisp[1].
>  
> The project URL on github is: https://github.com/lokedhs/cl-rabbit  

Thank you. Would you suggest that we recommend your client? Does it work on Windows,
for example?

Yes. I think it would make sense to mention it. Sadly, my project ended up having the same name as the older one, "cl-rabbit". Nick's old project with the same name hasn't been touched for over 5 years as far as I can tell, and is not compatible with current versions of RabbitMQ (it's also LispWorks-specific).

I've emailed Nick and asked about his plans for his library and will get back to you when I get a reply.

It would be nice to see a link to my project, along with a comment saying that it's available from Quicklisp under the name "cl-rabbit". Any Common Lisp developer knows how to download libraries from Quicklisp.

Finally, I don't think the Delicious link that is provided is in any way useful. In fact, I think it's mostly confusing. That's just my opinion though.

Regards,

Elias

[Elias Mårtenson]

On Monday, 22 December 2014 01:09:32 UTC+8, Michael Klishin wrote:

Thank you. Would you suggest that we recommend your client? Does it work on Windows,
for example?

Hello Michael,

At this point, I do believe that my library is the best option for anyone wanting to use RabbitMQ with Common Lisp. I developed this library out of necessity, and it's currently used in a project that will be announced soon.

Currently, it's very stable, for which Alan Antonuk deserves more credit than me (since my library used rabbitmq-c as a backend), and we use it without having any problems at all.

So yes, I'd appreciate it if the Common Lisp section of the web page was updated.

Regards,

Elias

[Michael Klishin]

Yes, we will update it, thank you again for the library!

MK

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[Troy Daniels]

I  tried to install it on a Mac running Darwin, and got two errors.  I raised an issue on github,  Has anyone successfully used it on a Mac?

Troy