Questions regarding management api – definitions import and export

Import is additive – RabbitMQ doesn’t delete things that are not present in the imported file.

If you configure the definitions file in the config file (to be load on each boot), you can skip the import, if the definitions file didn’t change

However, if the definitions file contains a queue definition different from an existing queue with the same name,

the import will succeed, but the queue definition won’t change. This is because the import process skips existing

queues to speed up the process. Since some changes would require the queue to be deleted and recreated,

it would introduce a few additional behaviours and configuration options that I don’t think we want to introduce

(things like, recreate if empty, recreate even if not empty, etc). Sounds like what you want is a Management API

(but this one is Kubernetes-specific).