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BrilBroeder
BrilBroeder

Reputation: 1579

Azure Queue - Reappearing messages

I have a webjob that gets triggered by queue messages. If the job gets too long, The message reappears on the queue and a new instance of the webjob is triggered consuming the same message. That is not meant to be.

How can set the timespan while a message is hidden on the queue before reappearing?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 226

Answers (1)

David Makogon
David Makogon

Reputation: 71029

Azure Queue messages have a visibility timeout value (in seconds), which you can set programmatically at any time, prior to the message becoming visible again.

You haven't mentioned what language you're coding in, but from a raw REST API standpoint, you just need to do an update message operation (a PUT on the queue message). From the documentation:

https://myaccount.queue.core.windows.net/myqueue/messages/messageid?popreceipt=<string-value>&visibilitytimeout=<int-seconds>

Via .net (c#):

var message = queue.GetMessage();

queue.UpdateMessage(message,
    TimeSpan.FromSeconds(30),
    MessageUpdateFields.Visibility);

See here for the API call details.

Upvotes: 1

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