4.7.3. Create a Direct Exchange from an application

You can create a Direct Exchange in an application as a side effect of creating a sender or a receiver. For example, the following example creates a direct exchange called engineering:

In the case where an exchange named engineering already exists, the sender will not try to create a new one, but will connect to the existing one. You need to be careful, however, because if a queue with the name engineering already exists, then your sender will silently connect to that queue.

To ensure that your sender will connect to a new or existing exchange called engineering, you can use assert, as in this example:

When you use assert: always, node: {type: topic}; if engineering exists and is a queue, rather than an exchange, the sender constructor will raise an exception: "expected topic, got queue".

Note that while you can use assert to verify that it is an exchange and not a queue, you cannot verify what type of exchange it is.