Hi Fergus, which of the Qpid components are you using / looking to use? For instance Qpid Broker-J does support different consumer priorities: https://qpid.apache.org/releases/qpid-broker-j-7.0.5/book/Java-Broker-Runtime-Consumers.html .
-- Rob On Wed, 20 Jun 2018 at 11:57, fergus <fergus.by...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi QPid team, > > I have a question regarding the possibility to add a priority to > consumers in a competing consumer use-case. > > I have a scenario where I have many consumers competing on a FIFO > queue. These consumers interact with external resources which is > expensive. As such I wish to optimise the resource utilisation. > However I also want to be able to scale at times of load. > > I was wondering if it would be possible to provide a priority to the > consumers listening to the queue. In this case, if I had two > consumers waiting to receive, the consumer with the highest priority > would receive the message. > > This will enable the consumers to be kept running to deal with high > load, while also allowing the external resources to be freed on > consumers with low priority after a TTL. During times of high load > the consumer with freed resources can the reallocate the external > resource when load is high again. > > I have searched the documentation and have not be able to found > anything similar.Kind regards, > > Fergus >
