RabbitMQ creating queues and bindings from command line

Question

If I have RabbitMQ installed on my machine, is there a way to create a message queue from the command line and bind it to a certain exchange without using a client?

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Answer 1

Walkthrough to Create and delete a queue in RabbitMQ:

I couldn't find a commandline command to do it. Here is how I did it in code with java.

Rabbitmq-server version 3.3.5 on Ubuntu.

List the queues, no queues yet:

sudo rabbitmqctl list_queues
[sudo] password for eric:
Listing queues ...
...done.

Put this in CreateQueue.java

import com.rabbitmq.client.ConnectionFactory;
import com.rabbitmq.client.Connection;
import com.rabbitmq.client.Channel;
import java.util.*;
public class CreateQueue {
  public static void main(String[] argv) throws Exception {
    ConnectionFactory factory = new ConnectionFactory();
    factory.setHost("localhost");
    Connection connection = factory.newConnection();
    Channel channel = connection.createChannel();
    Map args = new HashMap();
    args.put("x-message-ttl", 60000);
    channel.queueDeclare("kowalski", false, false, false, args);
    channel.close();
    connection.close();
  }
}

Supply the jar file that came with your rabbitmq installation:

I'm using rabbitmq-client.jar version 0.9.1, use the one that comes with your version of rabbitmq.

Compile and run:

javac -cp .:rabbitmq-client.jar CreateQueue.java
java -cp .:rabbitmq-client.jar CreateQueue

It should finish without errors, check your queues now:

sudo rabbitmqctl list_queues
Listing queues ...
kowalski        0
...done.

the kowalski queue exists.