RabbitMQ User Password as Environment variable

[skashif]

Hi,

Thank you for the library.

I was hoping to get some help in understanding, how to use this library to pass the RabbitMQ user password as an environment variable rather than from appsettings, is it possible? Let me know.

Thanks.

[antonyvorontsov]

Hello!

Yup, you could not configure RabbitMQ client connection in other way than passing IConfiguration from appsettings to the extension method in the latest version. But I have just added another way in new version of the library. So, lets begin with an explanation.

Here is a new method with the signature:

public static IServiceCollection AddRabbitMqClient(this IServiceCollection services, RabbitMqClientOptions configuration);

So you can manually pass configuration as an instance of the options class.

static void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services)
{
    var options = new RabbitMqClientOptions
    {
        UserName = "user",
        Password = "password"
    };
    services.AddRabbitMqClient(options);
}

And nothing stopping us to use environment variables like this:

static void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services)
{
    var options = new RabbitMqClientOptions
    {
        UserName = Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("RabbitMQ_User_Environment_Variable"),
        Password = Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("RabbitMQ_Password_Environment_Variable")
    };
    services.AddRabbitMqClient(options);
}

I have also updated Examples.Producer project and changed the way of configuring RabbitMQ. Now all the parts configured manually. You can dive into that project on your own and use it as a sample.

Changes will appear in version 1.3.2, just download latest package and try it out.

I hope it helps! My best regards.

[skashif]

Hi Antony,

Thank you for a prompt reply!

I have updated the library and configured the client setup in the following manner, just to keep some settings in the appsettings file -

Works great! Thanks again.

Regards, Kashif