streameroo

A mini-framework for building resilient asynchronous AMQP/RabbitMQ consumer applications in Rust, inspired by Axum's ergonomic handler pattern.

Built on top of amqprs and tokio.

Features

• Axum-style handlers -- plain async functions become message handlers via compile-time extraction
• Automatic connection recovery -- background IO loop with reconnection and a pre-allocated channel pool for publishing
• Consumer resilience -- consumers automatically recover from channel/connection failures
• Flexible serialization -- JSON, MessagePack, BSON, raw bytes, or runtime content-type dispatch via Auto<T>
• Dependency injection -- global state and per-delivery metadata extractors
• Result-driven actions -- handler return types control ack/nack, publish, or RPC reply behavior
• Distributed tracing -- optional OpenTelemetry trace propagation through AMQP headers
• Graceful shutdown -- signal-based shutdown that drains in-flight deliveries
• RPC support -- built-in Direct Reply-To pattern
• Test utilities -- testcontainers-based integration test harness

Quickstart

Add streameroo to your Cargo.toml:

[dependencies]
streameroo = "0.4.2"

The default features enable tokio and json (serde_json). See Feature Flags for additional options.

Define an event

Any DeserializeOwned struct works with the built-in Json<T> wrapper:

#[derive(Debug, Deserialize)]
struct MyEvent {
    hello: String,
}

Write a handler

A handler is any async function whose parameters are extractors followed by a final event parameter:

async fn my_handler(
    pool: State<PgPool>,
    redelivered: Redelivered,
    event: Json<MyEvent>,
) -> anyhow::Result<()> {
    tracing::info!(?event, "received");
    Ok(())
}

• pool -- shared state injected from the application Context
• redelivered -- extractor for the AMQP redelivered flag
• event -- the deserialized message body (last parameter, must implement AMQPDecode)
• Returning Ok(()) acknowledges the delivery; returning Err nacks with requeue

Run the application

use streameroo::amqp::*;

#[tokio::main]
async fn main() -> anyhow::Result<()> {
    let args = amqprs::connection::OpenConnectionArguments::new(
        "localhost", 5672, "guest", "guest",
    );
    let connection = AMQPConnection::connect(args).await?;

    let mut context = Context::new();
    context.data(pgpool); // register any shared state

    let mut app = Streameroo::new(connection, context, "my-consumer");
    app.with_graceful_shutdown(tokio::signal::ctrl_c());
    app.consume(my_handler, "my-queue", 10).await?;
    app.join().await;

    Ok(())
}

The third argument to consume sets both the number of concurrent handler tasks and the prefetch count. For full control over QoS and consume options, use consume_with_options.

Handlers

AMQPHandler

The AMQPHandler trait is automatically implemented for async functions with up to 13 extractor parameters plus one event parameter. You never implement it manually.

async fn handler(
    // 0..13 extractors (impl FromDeliveryContext)
    state: StateOwned<Arc<AtomicU8>>,
    exchange: Exchange,
    redelivered: Redelivered,
    // last parameter: the event (impl AMQPDecode)
    event: Json<MyEvent>,
) -> anyhow::Result<()> {
    // ...
    Ok(())
}

Constraints:

• The last parameter must implement AMQPDecode (the message payload)
• All preceding parameters must implement FromDeliveryContext
• The error type must implement Into<Box<dyn Error + Send + Sync>> (e.g. anyhow::Error)
• The return type T must implement AMQPResult
• The function must be Clone + Send + Sync + 'static

Extractors

Extractors pull data from the delivery context and are used as handler parameters (before the event).

Extractor	Inner Type	Description
State<T>	&'static T	Static reference to shared state from Context
StateOwned<T>	T	Cloned copy of shared state (requires T: Clone)
Exchange	String	The exchange the message was published to
RoutingKey	String	The routing key of the delivery
ReplyTo	Option<String>	The reply-to property, if present
DeliveryTag	u64	The AMQP delivery tag
Redelivered	bool	Whether this is a redelivery
BasicProperties	BasicProperties	The full AMQP properties (cloned)
Channel	Channel	The AMQP channel that received the delivery

All wrapper extractors implement Deref to their inner type and provide into_inner().

AMQPResult

The handler's return type controls what happens after successful execution. The trait provides a manual() flag: when false (the default), the framework auto-acks on success.

Return Type	Behavior
()	No-op. Framework auto-acks on Ok, nacks with requeue on Err.
Publish<E>	Publishes E to a specified exchange/routing_key, then auto-acks.
PublishReply<E>	Publishes E to the reply-to address (RPC pattern), then auto-acks.
DeliveryAction	Manual ack/nack control. Framework does not auto-ack.

Publish<E>

Publishes a message to another queue after handling:

async fn forward_handler(
    event: Json<MyEvent>,
) -> anyhow::Result<Publish<Json<MyEvent>>> {
    Ok(Publish::new(event, "", "forwarded-queue"))
}

The Publish struct also exposes options and properties fields for full control over the publish arguments.

PublishReply<E>

Implements the RPC reply-to pattern:

async fn rpc_handler(
    event: Json<Request>,
) -> anyhow::Result<PublishReply<Json<Response>>> {
    let response = process(event.into_inner());
    Ok(PublishReply::new(Json(response)))
}

If no reply-to header is present on the incoming message, the reply is silently discarded.

DeliveryAction

For fine-grained ack/nack control:

async fn manual_handler(
    event: Json<MyEvent>,
) -> Result<DeliveryAction, Infallible> {
    if should_requeue(&event) {
        Ok(DeliveryAction::Nack { requeue: true, multiple: false })
    } else {
        Ok(DeliveryAction::Ack { multiple: false })
    }
}

Error Handling

The framework distinguishes error types to decide requeue behavior:

Error Source	Behavior
Decode failure (Error::Event)	Nack without requeue (would fail again)
Handler error (Error::Handler)	Nack with requeue (assumed transient)
Result action failure	Nack with requeue

Serialization

Encode / Decode Traits

The event module provides format-agnostic serialization traits:

pub trait Decode: Sized {
    type Error: std::error::Error + Send + Sync + 'static;
    fn decode(data: Vec<u8>) -> Result<Self, Self::Error>;
}

pub trait Encode {
    type Error: std::error::Error + Send + Sync + 'static;
    fn encode(&self) -> Result<Vec<u8>, Self::Error>;
    fn content_type() -> Option<&'static str> { None }
}

The content_type() associated function is used by the publishing system to automatically set the AMQP content_type property on outgoing messages.

Wrapper Types

Type	Feature	Content-Type	Decode	Encode
Json<T>	json (default)	application/json	T: DeserializeOwned	T: Serialize
MsgPack<T>	msgpack	application/msgpack	T: DeserializeOwned	T: Serialize
Bson<T>	bson	application/bson	T: DeserializeOwned	T: Serialize
serde_json::Value	json	application/json	Yes	Yes
Vec<u8>	always	none	passthrough	passthrough
bytes::Bytes	bytes	none	decode only	--

All wrapper types implement Deref/DerefMut to the inner T and provide into_inner().

Auto<T> -- Runtime Content-Type Dispatch

Auto<T> selects the deserializer at runtime based on the message's content_type AMQP property:

async fn handler(event: Auto<MyEvent>) -> anyhow::Result<()> {
    // Works with JSON, MsgPack, or BSON depending on the content-type header
    Ok(())
}

Supported content-type values:

Header Value	Decoder	Feature Required
application/json or json	serde_json	json (default)
application/msgpack or msgpack	rmp_serde	msgpack
application/bson or bson	bson	bson

Returns an error if the content-type header is missing or unsupported. Auto<T> is decode-only; it does not implement Encode.

Connection Management

AMQPConnection

AMQPConnection is a Clone-able handle that wraps the raw connection behind an actor-like IO loop:

let args = OpenConnectionArguments::new("localhost", 5672, "guest", "guest");
let connection = AMQPConnection::connect(args).await?;

Key behaviors:

• Channel pool -- pre-allocates 10 channels for publishing, used in round-robin
• Automatic reconnection -- on connection failure, retries every 3 seconds indefinitely, re-opening all pool channels on success
• RPC timeout -- all operations (open channel, publish) have a 10-second timeout

Public API:

• connect(args) -- create a new connection with IO loop
• open_channel() -- open a new channel (for consuming or advanced operations)
• basic_publish(properties, data, args) -- publish via the channel pool

ChannelExt

Extension trait implemented for both amqprs::Channel and AMQPConnection:

pub trait ChannelExt {
    fn publish<E: Encode>(&self, exchange: &str, routing_key: &str, event: E) -> ...;
    fn publish_with_options<E: Encode>(&self, args, properties, event: E) -> ...;
    fn direct_rpc<E: Encode, T: Decode>(&mut self, exchange: &str, routing_key: &str, timeout: Duration, event: E) -> ...;
}

publish and publish_with_options automatically set the content_type property from the Encode implementation when not already present. With the telemetry feature enabled, they also inject OpenTelemetry trace context into AMQP headers.

Direct RPC

Implements the RabbitMQ Direct Reply-To pattern:

let response: Json<MyResponse> = channel
    .direct_rpc(
        "",
        &queue,
        Duration::from_secs(5),
        Json(MyRequest { data: "hello".into() }),
    )
    .await?;

Graceful Shutdown

Register a shutdown signal (any Future) to stop all consumers:

app.with_graceful_shutdown(tokio::signal::ctrl_c());

When the signal fires, all consumer loops are notified. In-flight handler tasks are awaited before the consumer channels are closed. Call app.join().await to block until all consumers have fully stopped.

You can also obtain a manual shutdown handle:

let handle = app.shutdown_handle();
// Later, from anywhere:
handle.notify_waiters();

OpenTelemetry Integration

Enable distributed tracing with the telemetry feature:

streameroo = { version = "0.4", features = ["telemetry"] }

What it does

• Producer side: when publishing via ChannelExt, a SpanKind::Producer span is created and trace context (W3C traceparent/tracestate) is injected into AMQP message headers
• Consumer side: when a delivery arrives, trace context is extracted from AMQP headers and set as the parent of a SpanKind::Consumer span that wraps the handler execution

This creates unbroken traces across producer -> broker -> consumer boundaries, visible in any OpenTelemetry-compatible backend (Jaeger, Grafana Tempo, Honeycomb, Datadog, etc.).

Span attributes

Consumer and producer spans include:

• otel.name -- {exchange}.{routing_key}
• otel.kind -- Consumer or Producer
• amqp.exchange, amqp.routing_key
• amqp.correlation_id, amqp.reply_to, amqp.content_type
• delivery_tag (consumer only)

Configuration

The library does not initialize a tracing subscriber or OpenTelemetry pipeline. Your application is responsible for setting up the OTel exporter. The library uses opentelemetry::global::get_text_map_propagator for context propagation, so standard OTEL_* environment variables apply:

OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT=http://localhost:4317
OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_PROTOCOL=grpc
OTEL_PROPAGATORS=tracecontext,baggage

A compose.yaml is included in the repository for running a local Jaeger instance:

docker compose up -d
# Jaeger UI at http://localhost:16686

Public API

The telemetry module is public when the feature is enabled:

use streameroo::amqp::telemetry;

telemetry::inject_context(&otel_context, &mut headers);  // producer: inject into AMQP headers
let ctx = telemetry::extract_context(&headers);           // consumer: extract from AMQP headers
let span = telemetry::make_span_from_delivery_context(&delivery_ctx);
let span = telemetry::make_span_from_properties(&props, SpanKind::Producer, "exchange", "key");

Utilities

field_table! Macro

Convenience macro for building amqprs::FieldTable values (e.g. for queue arguments):

use streameroo::field_table;
use streameroo::amqp::XQueueType;

let args = field_table!(
    ("x-queue-type", XQueueType::Quorum),
    ("x-delivery-limit", amqprs::FieldValue::u(5)),
);

XQueueType

Enum for RabbitMQ queue types, convertible to FieldValue:

pub enum XQueueType { Classic, Quorum, Stream }

table_from_map

Converts a HashMap<String, String> into a FieldTable:

let map = HashMap::from([("key".into(), "value".into())]);
let table = table_from_map(&map);

Feature Flags

Feature	Default	Description
tokio	yes	Tokio async runtime
json	yes	Json<T> wrapper + serde_json::Value support
msgpack	no	MsgPack<T> wrapper via MessagePack
bson	no	Bson<T> wrapper via BSON
bytes	no	Decode impl for bytes::Bytes
telemetry	no	OpenTelemetry distributed tracing through AMQP headers
amqp-test	no	Test utilities: AMQPTest context, start_rabbitmq(), consume_next()

Testing

Using the test utilities

Enable the amqp-test feature to access the test harness in your own integration tests:

[dev-dependencies]
streameroo = { version = "0.4", features = ["amqp-test"] }
test-context = "0.3"

use streameroo::amqp::amqp_test::AMQPTest;
use test_context::test_context;

#[test_context(AMQPTest)]
#[tokio::test]
async fn my_integration_test(ctx: &mut AMQPTest) {
    let channel = ctx.connection.open_channel().await.unwrap();
    // declare queues, publish messages, consume, assert...
}

AMQPTest automatically spins up a RabbitMQ container via testcontainers, creates a connection, and tears everything down after the test. The consume_next helper on AMQPConnection consumes and acks a single message from a queue:

let result: Json<MyEvent> = ctx.connection.consume_next("my-queue").await;

License

Apache-2.0