AMQP url and virtual host (vhost), best practice (to slash or not)

[Tippa Virtanen]

Hi coders!

when/if I specify virtual host (vhost), which way is preferable (best practice)
1) to use leading slash, for example "/foobar"
... and address amqp://localhost:5672/%2Ffoobar
or
2) not to use slash, for example "foobar"
... and address amqp://localhost:5672/foobar

And
3) Why either way is better?
4) Do these two ways have any other facts nice to know? Side effects?

many thanks in advance.

Rgds T.

[Michael Klishin]

There is no good practice. Vhosts are not required to contain or begin with a slash. Since slash encoding is annoying and overlooked by some,

it is a bit easier to use vhosts without slashes.

Environment names can be concatenated using an underscore, e.g. my_project_development and my_project_production.

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[V Z]

I would not even think of prefixing the vhost with a slash. First, what value does it have or what message would it convey? Second, you need to worry about encoding it in the url. My best practice is to not use it.