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I have an app that uses ActiveMQ, and typically, I test it by using AMQ's web UI to send messages to queues that my software is consuming from.

I'd like to semi-automate this and was hoping AMQ's command line has the capability to send a message to a specific queue by either providing that message as text in the command invocation, or ideally, reading it out of a file.

Examples:

./activemq-send queue="my-queue" messageFile="~/someMessage.xml"

or:

./activemq-send queue="my-queue" message="<someXml>...</someXml>"

Is there any way to do this?

You could use the "A" utility to do this.

a -b tcp://somebroker:61616 -p @someMessage.xml my-queue

Disclaimer: I'm the author of A, wrote it once to do just this thing. There are other ways as well, such as the REST interface, a Groovy script and whatnot.

ActiveMQ has a REST interface that you can send messages to from the command line, using, for example, the curl utility.

Here is a script I wrote and use for this very purpose:

#!/bin/bash
#
#
# Sends a message to the message broker on localhost.
# Uses ActiveMQ's REST API and the curl utility.
#

if [ $# -lt 2 -o $# -gt 3 ] ; then
 echo "Usage: msgSender (topic|queue) DESTINATION [ FILE ]"
 echo " Ex: msgSender topic myTopic msg.json"
 echo " Ex: msgSender topic myTopic <<< 'this is my message'"
 exit 2
fi

UNAME=admin
PSWD=admin

TYPE=$1
DESTINATION=$2
FILE=$3

BHOST=$BROKER_HOST:-'localhost'
BPORT=$BROKER_REST_PORT:-'8161'

if [ -z "$FILE" -o "$FILE" = "-" ] ; then
 # Get msg from stdin if no filename given

 ( echo -n "body=" ; cat ) 
 | curl -u $UNAME:$PSWD --data-binary '@-' --proxy "" 
 "http://$BHOST:$BPORT/api/message/$DESTINATION?type=$TYPE"
else
 # Get msg from a file
 if [ ! -r "$FILE" ] ; then
 echo "File not found or not readable"
 exit 2
 fi

 ( echo -n "body=" ; cat $FILE ) 
 | curl -u $UNAME:$PSWD --data-binary '@-' --proxy "" 
 "http://$BHOST:$BPORT/api/message/$DESTINATION?type=$TYPE"
fi