Method: RightAws::SqsInterface#receive_messages

Defined in:
lib/sqs/right_sqs_interface.rb

#receive_messages(queue_url, number_of_messages = 1, visibility_timeout = nil) ⇒ Object

Retrieves a list of messages from queue. Returns an array of hashes in format: {:id=>'message_id', body=>'message_body'}

sqs.receive_messages('http://queue.amazonaws.com/ZZ7XXXYYYBINS/my_awesome_queue',10, 5) #=>
 [{:id=>"12345678904GEZX9746N|0N9ED344VK5Z3SV1DTM0|1RVYH4X3TJ0987654321", :body=>"message_1"}, ..., {}]

P.S. Usually returns fewer messages than requested even if they are available.



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# File 'lib/sqs/right_sqs_interface.rb', line 295

def receive_messages(queue_url, number_of_messages=1, visibility_timeout=nil)
  return [] if number_of_messages == 0
  req_hash = generate_rest_request('GET',
                                   'NumberOfMessages'  => number_of_messages,
                                   'VisibilityTimeout' => visibility_timeout,
                                   :queue_url          => "#{queue_url}/front" )
  request_info(req_hash, SqsReceiveMessagesParser.new(:logger => @logger))
rescue
  on_exception
end