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Creating a RabbitMQ Consumer for the Houses App

Creating a RabbitMQ Consumer for the Houses App

Learn how to create a RabbitMQ consumer in Django.

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Creating a consumer for the Config and Houses apps

In RabbitMQ, the word consumer refers to any application or program that receives messages. Therefore, consuming means receiving.

To create a RabbitMQ consumer for the Config and Houses app, we'll create a file in the backendservice1 app directory named consumer.py. Then, we open the file and import os, django, pika, and json, as follows:

import os, django, pika, json

We also have to set up our OS environment and Django:

os.environ.setdefault("DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE", "config.settings")

django.setup()

We then import our House model from the models.py file in the houses app, but only after calling the django.setup():

from houses.models import
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