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title: “Broadcasting” permalink: /docs/broadcast-example/ excerpt: “How to send broadcast messages in Apache RocketMQ.” modified: 2017-04-24T15:01:43-04:00

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What is broadcasting

Broadcasting is sending a message to all subscribers of a topic. If you want all subscribers receive messages about a topic, broadcasting is a good choice.

Producer example

public class BroadcastProducer {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        DefaultMQProducer producer = new DefaultMQProducer("ProducerGroupName");
        producer.start();

        for (int i = 0; i < 100; i++){
            Message msg = new Message("TopicTest",
                "TagA",
                "OrderID188",
                "Hello world".getBytes(RemotingHelper.DEFAULT_CHARSET));
            SendResult sendResult = producer.send(msg);
            System.out.printf("%s%n", sendResult);
        }
        producer.shutdown();
    }
}

Consumer example

public class BroadcastConsumer {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        DefaultMQPushConsumer consumer = new DefaultMQPushConsumer("example_group_name");

        consumer.setConsumeFromWhere(ConsumeFromWhere.CONSUME_FROM_FIRST_OFFSET);

        //set to broadcast mode
        consumer.setMessageModel(MessageModel.BROADCASTING);

        consumer.subscribe("TopicTest", "TagA || TagC || TagD");

        consumer.registerMessageListener(new MessageListenerConcurrently() {

            @Override
            public ConsumeConcurrentlyStatus consumeMessage(List<MessageExt> msgs,
                ConsumeConcurrentlyContext context) {
                System.out.printf(Thread.currentThread().getName() + " Receive New Messages: " + msgs + "%n");
                return ConsumeConcurrentlyStatus.CONSUME_SUCCESS;
            }
        });

        consumer.start();
        System.out.printf("Broadcast Consumer Started.%n");
    }
}