On Tue, 2013-02-26 at 15:17 -0500, Michael Goulish wrote:
> Would it be possible, without breaking the messenger
> paradigm very much, to provide some way of knowing
> which messages had not been delivered after a specified
> time?
>
> i.e.
>
> pn_message_set_ttl ( message, seconds );
>
> and then maybe
>
> int n_dead_letters = pn_messenger_expired ( messenger );
>
> for ( i = 0 ; i < n_dead_letters; ++ i )
> {
> pn_messenger_get_dead_letter ( messenger );
> /* app does something with dead letter */
> }
>
Good question: more generally how does/should proton expose the AMQP
settlement status of messages? That will be important when we start to
think about HA and fail-over of proton clients, so we can replay the
right messages.
