We send states to a message queue named 'qualityQueue', which stores simple status messages of a quality assurance system. Create a multi-component application that communicates with the message queue through two clients in the following way:

1. The first component connects to the sensor placed on the measuring machine and randomly sends GOOD, EXCELLENT, and WRONG messages to the 'qualityQueue' message queue every second.
2. Create a component that reads and collects the 'GOOD', 'EXCELLENT', and 'WRONG' messages from the qualityQueue queue. After receiving 10 identical messages, it sends a message to the 'qualityStatistics' queue indicating that it has processed 10 messages of a certain quality.
3. Create a second component that reads the statistics from the 'qualityStatistics' queue and prints to the console, for example, '10 'WRONG' messages has been processed'.

Let's try to solve the task with http://docker.iit.uni-miskolc.hu framework.

To solve the task, it is recommended to start multiple instances (terminals). The first terminal will start the RabbitMQ server. Open a new terminal (node 1) and run the following command:

docker run -it --rm --name rabbitmq -p 5672:5672 -p 15672:15672 rabbitmq:management-alpine

After running the command above, the RabbitMQ management console will be accessible on port 15672, using the credentials guest/guest. In the left-side menu, you can find the internal IP address (10.x.y.z) of node1, which can be used in the clients and processors.

Create another terminal and execute the following command:

pip install pika

This command installs the pika module, which provides the connection to RabbitMQ.

Create the quality_message_sender.py:

Use the appropriate IP address in the init(self): method.

import pika
import random
import time
 
class QualitySender:
    def __init__(self):
        self.connection = pika.BlockingConnection(pika.ConnectionParameters('10.x.y.z'))
        self.channel = self.connection.channel()
        self.channel.queue_declare(queue='qualityQueue')
 
    def start_sending(self):
        qualities = ['GOOD', 'EXCELLENT', 'WRONG']
        while True:
            quality = random.choice(qualities)
            self.channel.basic_publish(exchange='', routing_key='qualityQueue', body=quality)
            print(f'Sent quality: {quality}')
            time.sleep(1)
 
    def close_connection(self):
        self.connection.close()
 
if __name__ == '__main__':
    sender = QualitySender()
    try:
        sender.start_sending()
    except KeyboardInterrupt:
        sender.close_connection()

Let's create the quality_message_consumer.py file:

(do not forget to create it in an other terminal, and run pip install pika and set the proper IP in pika.ConnectionParameters() )

import pika
 
class QualityConsumer:
    def __init__(self):
        self.connection = pika.BlockingConnection(pika.ConnectionParameters('10.x.y.z'))
        self.channel = self.connection.channel()
        self.channel.queue_declare(queue='qualityQueue')
        self.channel.queue_declare(queue='qualityStatistics')
        self.message_count = {'GOOD': 0, 'EXCELLENT': 0, 'WRONG': 0}
 
    def start_consuming(self):
        def callback(ch, method, properties, body):
            quality = body.decode()
            self.message_count[quality] += 1
            print(f'Received quality: {quality}')
            if self.is_batch_completed():
                self.send_statistics()
                self.reset_message_count()
 
        self.channel.basic_consume(queue='qualityQueue', on_message_callback=callback, auto_ack=True)
        self.channel.start_consuming()
 
    def send_statistics(self):
        for quality, count in self.message_count.items():
            if count > 0:
                message = f'{count} {quality} messages has been processed'
                self.channel.basic_publish(exchange='', routing_key='qualityStatistics', body=message)
                print(f'Sent statistics: {message}')
 
    def reset_message_count(self):
        for quality in self.message_count:
            self.message_count[quality] = 0
 
    def is_batch_completed(self):
        return sum(self.message_count.values()) >= 10
 
    def close_connection(self):
        self.connection.close()
 
if __name__ == '__main__':
    consumer = QualityConsumer()
    try:
        consumer.start_consuming()
    except KeyboardInterrupt:
        consumer.close_connection()

The third components prints the statistics. Let's create an other instance (terminal) and create statistics_consumer.py

import pika
 
# RabbitMQ settings
connection = pika.BlockingConnection(pika.ConnectionParameters('10.x.y.z'))
channel = connection.channel()
 
channel.queue_declare(queue='qualityStatistics')
 
def callback(ch, method, properties, body):
    message = body.decode()
    print('-----------------------------')
    print(f'{message}')
    ch.basic_ack(delivery_tag=method.delivery_tag)
 
channel.basic_consume(queue='qualityStatistics', on_message_callback=callback)
 
print('Waiting for quality statistics...')
channel.start_consuming()