Publish messages getting dropped

[anindyaju99]

In one of my applications I am generating an array of messages and iterating over them and pushing them (Publish) to the producer.

I am creating the producer as follows -
val deadLetterOption = config.deadletter match {
case true => clientProps ++ Map("x-dead-letter-routing-key" -> config.deadletterRoutingKey, "x-dead-letter-exchange" -> config.deadletterExchange)
case _ => clientProps
}
val ttlOption = config.ttl > 0 match {
case true => deadLetterOption ++ Map("x-message-ttl" -> new Integer(config.ttl))
case false => deadLetterOption
}
val channelParameters = Option(ChannelParameters(1))
val exchangeParams = ExchangeParameters(name = exchange, passive = false,
exchangeType = "direct", durable = true, autodelete = false, clientProps)
val queueParams = QueueParameters(queueName, passive = false, durable = true, exclusive = false, autodelete = false,
clientProps)
val producer = ConnectionOwner.createChildActor(connection, ChannelOwner.props(channelParams = channelParameters),
timeout = timeout.second)
Amqp.waitForConnection(system, producer).await()
producer ! DeclareExchange(exchangeParams)
producer ! DeclareQueue(queueParams)
producer ! QueueBind(queue = queueName, exchange = exchange, routing_key = queueName)

I am getting the following in my deadletter watcher -

Publish(my_ex,my_q,[B@f94d482,None,true,false)

When I generate 100k messages, I get this dropped messages for > 10k messages.
I am using unbounded mailbox (unless this library uses some other mailbox from code).

What could be the reason for these drops?

[sstone]

Hi,
Sorry for the delay, I was off in the mountains!
And sorry for asking a basic question, but are you sure that your producer program does not exit before all messages have actually been pushed to the broker ? (see #72 for something similar).
Is there a way that you can package a small, complete sample so that I can try and reproduce the problem ?
Thanks

[anindyaju99]

I am absolutely sure that the producer program has not exited, because when I am testing locally my producer and consumer actors are in the same executable.

I will try to reproduce with a self contained example.

[anindyaju99]

This might be a bug in the way the producer actor is killed. For this specific use case I iterate over the messages and send them to a producer. Once the loop is done I send a PoisonPill message to the producer. It seems the producer actor and the RMQ channel is getting closed before the messages I have already sent are sent to RMQ.

For now I have added a delay (thread sleep) after sending the last message to producer actor to delay issuing the PoisonPill.

Let me know if this information helps in finding the issue.