using rabbitmq to send a message not string but struct

Question

i read the tutorials,RabbitMQ is a message broker,and the message is a string. is there any idea that the message is defined as a class or a struct?so i can define my message struct.

Answer 1

The message is sent as a byte stream, so you can convert any object that is serializable into a byte stream and send it, then deserialize it on the other side.

put this in the message object, and call it when the message is published:

    public byte[] toBytes() {
      byte[]bytes; 
      ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream(); 
      try{ 
        ObjectOutputStream oos = new ObjectOutputStream(baos); 
        oos.writeObject(this); 
        oos.flush();
        oos.reset();
        bytes = baos.toByteArray();
        oos.close();
        baos.close();
      } catch(IOException e){ 
        bytes = new byte[] {};
        Logger.getLogger("bsdlog").error("Unable to write to output stream",e); 
      }         
      return bytes; 
    }

put this in the message object and call it when the message is consumed:

public static Message fromBytes(byte[] body) {
    Message obj = null;
    try {
        ByteArrayInputStream bis = new ByteArrayInputStream (body);
        ObjectInputStream ois = new ObjectInputStream (bis);
        obj = (Message)ois.readObject();
        ois.close();
        bis.close();
    }
    catch (IOException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
    catch (ClassNotFoundException ex) {
        ex.printStackTrace();
    }
    return obj;     
}