Event Consumer creation - CompetitionLabs

Press Add Consumer Config to get a new pop-up window where you enter the new event consumer’s information, as shown in the example below. Some fields are mandatory, others are optional for custom field creation.

Event consumer creation fields

Name String

Mandatory

Enter a name that you can use to refer to this configuration. It is for display only.

URI String

Mandatory

Identifies the name and location of a file or resource in a uniform format. It includes a string of characters for the filename, and may also contain the path to the directory of the file.

Virtual Host String

Mandatory

For RabbitMQ, enter the name of the virtual host for the desired namespace. For Kafka, set this to CL.

Port Integer

Mandatory

Specify the port to use for the connection.

SSL Enabled Boolean

Mandatory

Set to Yes to use an SSL connection.

Username String

Mandatory

Specify the username.

Password String

Mandatory

Specify the password.

Queue Name String

Mandatory

Specify the RabbitMQ queue name or the Kafka topic.

Exchange String

Optional

Specify an option Exchange name for a RabbitMQ queue.

Routing Key String

Optional

Specify the Routing Key for a RabbitMQ queue

Description String

Optional

An optional description for this queue.

Transformer Object

Mandatory

Selecting the transformer that was previously created in the Transformers sub-section.

Durable Boolean

Optional

The queue will remain after a broker restart

Exclusive Boolean

Optional

The queue is used by only one connection and the queue is deleted when the connection closes.

Auto Delete Boolean

Optional

The queue is deleted when the last consumer un-subscribes.

When you have entered all the information correctly, press Save and the event consumer will be saved

If information is filled out incorrectly, the information bar will be shown in red. If all the steps are correct, the Event consumer will be created in Settings → Event Consumers, as shown in the example. After creation, you can Edit the event consumer, or Start/Stop or Delete it from the list.

If the information is filled out incorrectly the information bar will be shown in red as in an example below.

Example