Feature Request: Limit number of messages consumed

[hrobertson]

Thanks for this really useful tool!
I'd like to be able to consume n messages per invocation.
Additionally I'd like to be able to use the --delay option when consuming to limit the rate at which messages are consumed.

eg rabtap sub somequeue --limit 10 --delay 30s would consume 1 message every 30s until 10 messages had been consumed.

Is this something you might consider implementing?
Thanks!

[jandelgado]

That just reminded me that already started building this feature in March, but somehow I had to change priorities and work stalled :-(

Thanks for the reminder. I just opened a PR for this (#54)

I'll check if the --delay option can be easily added too.

[Antiarchitect]

Also need exact this feature!

[jandelgado]

@Antiarchitect, @hrobertson: I've added a --limit=NUM option in #54 and the ability to optionally reject/requeue messages. You can build a version to test with go get github.com/jandelgado/rabtap/cmd/rabtap@3b4c6eb823e89edc620efe10ed1ad0450fb3d997. Please tell me if this works for you

[Antiarchitect]

@jandelgado Worked like a charm for me! Thank you once again! Now waiting for the official release :)

[hrobertson]

Thanks @jandelgado This looks good.
I'm not working with Rabbit these days but I'm sure I'll make use of this feature in the future.

Thanks!