Connection Parameters¶

To maintain flexibility in how you specify the connection information required for your applications to properly connect to RabbitMQ, pika implements two classes for encapsulating the information, ConnectionParameters and URLParameters.

ConnectionParameters¶

The classic object for specifying all of the connection parameters required to connect to RabbitMQ, ConnectionParameters provides attributes for tweaking every possible connection option.

Example:

import pika

# Set the connection parameters to connect to rabbit-server1 on port 5672
# on the / virtual host using the username "guest" and password "guest"
credentials = pika.PlainCredentials('guest', 'guest')
parameters = pika.ConnectionParameters('rabbit-server1',
                                       5672,
                                       '/',
                                       credentials)

class pika.connection.ConnectionParameters(host=<class 'pika.connection.ConnectionParameters._DEFAULT'>, port=<class 'pika.connection.ConnectionParameters._DEFAULT'>, virtual_host=<class 'pika.connection.ConnectionParameters._DEFAULT'>, credentials=<class 'pika.connection.ConnectionParameters._DEFAULT'>, channel_max=<class 'pika.connection.ConnectionParameters._DEFAULT'>, frame_max=<class 'pika.connection.ConnectionParameters._DEFAULT'>, heartbeat=<class 'pika.connection.ConnectionParameters._DEFAULT'>, ssl_options=<class 'pika.connection.ConnectionParameters._DEFAULT'>, connection_attempts=<class 'pika.connection.ConnectionParameters._DEFAULT'>, retry_delay=<class 'pika.connection.ConnectionParameters._DEFAULT'>, socket_timeout=<class 'pika.connection.ConnectionParameters._DEFAULT'>, stack_timeout=<class 'pika.connection.ConnectionParameters._DEFAULT'>, locale=<class 'pika.connection.ConnectionParameters._DEFAULT'>, blocked_connection_timeout=<class 'pika.connection.ConnectionParameters._DEFAULT'>, client_properties=<class 'pika.connection.ConnectionParameters._DEFAULT'>, tcp_options=<class 'pika.connection.ConnectionParameters._DEFAULT'>, **kwargs)[source]¶

Connection parameters object that is passed into the connection adapter upon construction.

property blocked_connection_timeout¶

Returns: blocked connection timeout. Defaults to DEFAULT_BLOCKED_CONNECTION_TIMEOUT.
Return type: float|None

property channel_max¶

Returns: max preferred number of channels. Defaults to DEFAULT_CHANNEL_MAX.
Return type: int

property client_properties¶

Returns: client properties used to override the fields in the default client properties reported to RabbitMQ via Connection.StartOk method. Defaults to DEFAULT_CLIENT_PROPERTIES.
Return type: dict|None

property connection_attempts¶

Returns: number of socket connection attempts. Defaults to DEFAULT_CONNECTION_ATTEMPTS. See also retry_delay.
Return type: int

property credentials¶

Return type: one of the classes from pika.credentials.VALID_TYPES. Defaults to DEFAULT_CREDENTIALS.

property frame_max¶

Returns: desired maximum AMQP frame size to use. Defaults to DEFAULT_FRAME_MAX.
Return type: int

property heartbeat¶

Returns: AMQP connection heartbeat timeout value for negotiation during connection tuning or callable which is invoked during connection tuning. None to accept broker’s value. 0 turns heartbeat off. Defaults to DEFAULT_HEARTBEAT_TIMEOUT.
Return type: int|callable|None

property host¶

Returns: hostname or ip address of broker. Defaults to DEFAULT_HOST.
Return type: str

property locale¶

Returns: locale value to pass to broker; e.g., ‘en_US’. Defaults to DEFAULT_LOCALE.
Return type: str

property retry_delay¶

Returns: interval between socket connection attempts; see also connection_attempts. Defaults to DEFAULT_RETRY_DELAY.
Return type: float

property socket_timeout¶

Returns: socket connect timeout in seconds. Defaults to DEFAULT_SOCKET_TIMEOUT. The value None disables this timeout.
Return type: float|None

property stack_timeout¶

Returns: full protocol stack TCP/[SSL]/AMQP bring-up timeout in seconds. Defaults to DEFAULT_STACK_TIMEOUT. The value None disables this timeout.
Return type: float

property ssl_options¶

Returns: None for plaintext or pika.SSLOptions instance for SSL/TLS.
Return type: `pika.SSLOptions`|None

property port¶

Returns: port number of broker’s listening socket. Defaults to DEFAULT_PORT.
Return type: int

property virtual_host¶

Returns: rabbitmq virtual host name. Defaults to DEFAULT_VIRTUAL_HOST.
Return type: str

property tcp_options¶

Returns: None or a dict of options to pass to the underlying socket
Return type: dict|None

URLParameters¶

The URLParameters class allows you to pass in an AMQP URL when creating the object and supports the host, port, virtual host, ssl, username and password in the base URL and other options are passed in via query parameters.

Example:

import pika

# Set the connection parameters to connect to rabbit-server1 on port 5672
# on the / virtual host using the username "guest" and password "guest"
parameters = pika.URLParameters('amqp://guest:guest@rabbit-server1:5672/%2F')

class pika.connection.URLParameters(url)[source]¶

Connect to RabbitMQ via an AMQP URL in the format:

amqp://username:password@host:port/<virtual_host>[?query-string]

Ensure that the virtual host is URI encoded when specified. For example if you are using the default “/” virtual host, the value should be %2f.

See Parameters for default values.

Valid query string values are:

channel_max:
Override the default maximum channel count value

client_properties:
dict of client properties used to override the fields in the default client properties reported to RabbitMQ via Connection.StartOk method

connection_attempts:
Specify how many times pika should try and reconnect before it gives up

frame_max:
Override the default maximum frame size for communication

heartbeat:
Desired connection heartbeat timeout for negotiation. If not present the broker’s value is accepted. 0 turns heartbeat off.

locale:
Override the default en_US locale value

ssl_options:
None for plaintext; for SSL: dict of public ssl context-related arguments that may be passed to ssl.SSLSocket() as kwargs, except sock, server_side,`do_handshake_on_connect`, family, type, proto, fileno.

retry_delay:
The number of seconds to sleep before attempting to connect on connection failure.

socket_timeout:
Socket connect timeout value in seconds (float or int)

stack_timeout:
Positive full protocol stack (TCP/[SSL]/AMQP) bring-up timeout in seconds. It’s recommended to set this value higher than socket_timeout.

blocked_connection_timeout:
Set the timeout, in seconds, that the connection may remain blocked (triggered by Connection.Blocked from broker); if the timeout expires before connection becomes unblocked, the connection will be torn down, triggering the connection’s on_close_callback

tcp_options:
Set the tcp options for the underlying socket.

Parameters: url (str) – The AMQP URL to connect to