Chapter 3. Getting started
This chapter guides you through the steps to set up your environment and run a simple messaging program.
3.1. Prerequisites
- You must complete the installation procedure for your environment.
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You must have an AMQP 1.0 message broker listening for connections on interface
localhostand port5672. It must have anonymous access enabled. For more information, see Starting the broker. -
You must have a queue named
examples. For more information, see Creating a queue.
3.2. Running Hello World on Red Hat Enterprise Linux
The Hello World example creates a connection to the broker, sends a message containing a greeting to the examples queue, and receives it back. On success, it prints the received message to the console.
Change to the examples directory and run the helloworld.py example.
$ cd /usr/share/proton/examples/python/ $ python helloworld.py Hello World!
3.3. Running Hello World on Microsoft Windows
The Hello World example creates a connection to the broker, sends a message containing a greeting to the examples queue, and receives it back. On success, it prints the received message to the console.
Download and run the Hello World example.
> curl -o helloworld.py https://raw.githubusercontent.com/apache/qpid-proton/master/python/examples/helloworld.py > python helloworld.py Hello World!
