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@s2x s2x commented Mar 30, 2026

Closes #174

Problem

No E2E test verifies that multiple consumers (on separate connections) can read from the same stream independently. Each consumer should receive all messages and maintain independent offsets.

Expected test

public function testMultipleConsumersOnSameStream(): void
{
    $stream = 'test-multi-consumer-' . uniqid();
    $conn1 = Connection::create(...);
    $conn2 = Connection::create(...);

    $conn1->createStream($stream);

    // Publish messages
    $producer = $conn1->createProducer($stream);
    $producer->sendBatch([...5 AMQP messages...]);
    $producer->waitForConfirms();
    $producer->close();

    // Consumer 1 on conn1
    $consumer1 = $conn1->createConsumer($stream, OffsetSpec::first(), name: 'consumer-1');
    // Consumer 2 on conn2
    $consumer2 = $conn2->createConsumer($stream, OffsetSpec::first(), name: 'consumer-2');

    // Both should receive all 5 messages
    $msgs1 = $this->readAll($consumer1, 5);
    $msgs2 = $this->readAll($consumer2, 5);

    $this->assertCount(5, $msgs1);
    $this->assertCount(5, $msgs2);

    // Store different offsets
    $consumer1->storeOffset($msgs1[2]->getOffset()); // offset at message 3
    $consumer2->storeOffset($msgs2[4]->getOffset()); // offset at message 5

    // Verify independent offsets
    $offset1 = $conn1->queryOffset('consumer-1', $stream);
    $offset2 = $conn2->queryOffset('consumer-2', $stream);
    $this->assertNotSame($offset1, $offset2);
}

Why it matters

  • Multiple consumers is the standard pattern for RabbitMQ Streams (fan-out)
  • Each consumer must have independent offset tracking
  • Tests that consumers on different connections don't interfere with each other

Acceptance criteria

  • Two consumers on different connections receive all messages independently
  • Each consumer can store and query its own offset
  • Offsets are independent (storing one doesn't affect the other)

Piotr Hałas added 3 commits March 30, 2026 16:45
The testSendAfterServerCloseThrows() test was failing because it
expected the error message to contain 'closed', but the actual
error message was 'Failed to read from socket: Success'.

Updated the assertion to accept various connection-related error
messages ('closed', 'socket', 'Connection') to make the test more
robust across different platforms and timing conditions.

Fixes pipeline failure for #174
@s2x s2x closed this Mar 30, 2026
@s2x s2x deleted the oda-174-e2e-test-multiple-consumers-reading-from branch March 30, 2026 14:55
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