Merge pull request #5380 from st2sandbox/drop-pika

silence pylint warning about pika dep in tool

Author: cognifloyd

CHANGELOG.rst

@@ -71,6 +71,9 @@ Changed
   This functionality should never be used in production, but only in development environments or
   similar when debugging code. #5199
 
+* Silence pylint about dev/debugging utility (tools/direct_queue_publisher.py) that uses pika because kombu
+  doesn't support what it does. If anyone uses that utility, they have to install pika manually. #5380
+
 Fixed
 ~~~~~
 

tools/direct_queue_publisher.py

@@ -18,7 +18,12 @@
 from __future__ import absolute_import
 import argparse
 
-import pika
+try:
+    import pika  # pylint disable=import-error
+except ImportError:
+    raise ImportError(
+        "Pika is not installed with StackStorm. Install it manually to use this tool."
+    )
 
 
 def main(queue, payload):