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amqp.basic_message

AMQP Messages.

class amqp.basic_message.Message(body='', children=None, channel=None, **properties)[source]

A Message for use with the Channel.basic_* methods.

Expected arg types

body: string children: (not supported)

Keyword properties may include:

content_type: shortstr
MIME content type
content_encoding: shortstr
MIME content encoding
application_headers: table
Message header field table, a dict with string keys, and string | int | Decimal | datetime | dict values.
delivery_mode: octet
Non-persistent (1) or persistent (2)
priority: octet
The message priority, 0 to 9
correlation_id: shortstr
The application correlation identifier
reply_to: shortstr
The destination to reply to
expiration: shortstr
Message expiration specification
message_id: shortstr
The application message identifier
timestamp: unsigned long
The message timestamp
type: shortstr
The message type name
user_id: shortstr
The creating user id
app_id: shortstr
The creating application id
cluster_id: shortstr
Intra-cluster routing identifier

Unicode bodies are encoded according to the ‘content_encoding’ argument. If that’s None, it’s set to ‘UTF-8’ automatically.

Example:

msg = Message('hello world',
                content_type='text/plain',
                application_headers={'foo': 7})
CLASS_ID = 60
PROPERTIES = [('content_type', 's'), ('content_encoding', 's'), ('application_headers', 'F'), ('delivery_mode', 'o'), ('priority', 'o'), ('correlation_id', 's'), ('reply_to', 's'), ('expiration', 's'), ('message_id', 's'), ('timestamp', 'L'), ('type', 's'), ('user_id', 's'), ('app_id', 's'), ('cluster_id', 's')]

Instances of this class have these attributes, which are passed back and forth as message properties between client and server

delivery_info = None

set by basic_consume/basic_get

delivery_tag
headers