Added the ability to stop the consumers frmo receiving messages, but not from acknolwedging them

consume.go

@@ -2,9 +2,8 @@ package rabbitmq
 
 import (
 	"fmt"
-	"time"
-
 	"github.com/streadway/amqp"
+	"time"
 )
 
 // Consumer allows you to create and connect to queues for data consumption.
@@ -107,13 +106,32 @@ func (consumer Consumer) StartConsuming(
 	return nil
 }
 
-// StopConsuming stops the consumption of messages.
-// The consumer should be discarded as it's not safe for re-use
-func (consumer Consumer) StopConsuming() {
+// Disconnect disconnects both the channel and the connection.
+// This method doesn't throw a reconnect, and should be used when finishing a program.
+// IMPORTANT: If this method is executed before StopConsuming, it could cause unexpected behavior
+// such as messages being processed, but not being acknowledged, thus being requeued by the broker
+func (consumer Consumer) Disconnect() {
 	consumer.chManager.channel.Close()
 	consumer.chManager.connection.Close()
 }
 
+// StopConsuming stops the consumption of messages.
+// The consumer should be discarded as it's not safe for re-use.
+// This method sends a basic.cancel notification.
+// The consumerName is the name or delivery tag of the amqp consumer we want to cancel.
+// When noWait is true, do not wait for the server to acknowledge the cancel.
+// Only use this when you are certain there are no deliveries in flight that
+// require an acknowledgment, otherwise they will arrive and be dropped in the
+// client without an ack, and will not be redelivered to other consumers.
+// IMPORTANT: Since the streadway library doesn't provide a way to retrieve the consumer's tag after the creation
+// it's imperative for you to set the name when creating the consumer, if you want to use this function later
+// a simple uuid4 should do the trick, since it should be unique.
+// If you start many consumers, you should store the name of the consumers when creating them, such that you can
+// use them in a for to stop all the consumers.
+func (consumer Consumer) StopConsuming(consumerName string, noWait bool) {
+	consumer.chManager.channel.Cancel(consumerName, noWait)
+}
+
 // startGoroutinesWithRetries attempts to start consuming on a channel
 // with an exponential backoff
 func (consumer Consumer) startGoroutinesWithRetries(

consume_options.go

@@ -189,7 +189,6 @@ func WithConsumeOptionsConsumerName(consumerName string) func(*ConsumeOptions) {
 	}
 }
 
-
 // WithConsumeOptionsConsumerAutoAck returns a function that sets the auto acknowledge property on the server of this consumer
 // if unset the default will be used (false)
 func WithConsumeOptionsConsumerAutoAck(autoAck bool) func(*ConsumeOptions) {