Instead of doing a manual cleanup of my local RabbitMQ cluster I decided to use the Management HTTP API and script the whole process.
I decided to use Postman and the collection runner data files support.
Let’s walk through the steps:
- I started by creating a new Collection inside Postman:
- Inside this collection I started adding DELETE requests to different objects(exchanges, queues,…) inside RabbitMQ
- I used variables (recognizable with the double mustaches {{variableName}}) inside the URLs.
- E.g. http://user:pw@localhost:15672/api/exchanges/%2F/{{exchange}}
- These variables should be replaced by values from a JSON data file.
- Create a JSON file containing a list of values. Unfortunately it is not possible to add the data file to your collection. So save it anywhere you want
- Here is how the data file looked like for the above request:
- Let’s now try to use the collection runner. Click on the Runner button at the top:
- Select the collection you want to run on the left.
- Also select a data file.
- Click on the big blue run button to execute the requests in the collection. Parameters will be replaced using the values you’ve provided in the data file.