Publishing to the default rabbitmq exchange using the http api

Question

So I am using rabbitmqs http api to do some very basic actions in rabbit. It works great in most situations but I am having an issue figuring out how to use it to publish a mess

Answer 1

This is the way to publish a message to amq.default:

http://localhost:15672/api/exchanges/%2f/amq.default/publish

with this body

{"properties":{},
 "routing_key":"queue_test",
 "payload":"message test ",
 "payload_encoding":"string"}

routing_key is the queue where you will publish the message.

Following an example using a chrome plug-in: