Procedures

Automation procedures in the AWS SQS book.

The following documentation is for AWS SQS v1.6.3 (BDK).

Ensure that you have installed or connected the AWS SQS book and created a new playground before using these automation procedures.

to delete a (message) from a queue

Deletes a message from an SQS queue.

Input Concepts

Concept	Description	Type	Required	Default Value
message	The sqs message to delete	sqs message	Yes	(no default)

Output Concepts

Concept	Description	Type
message	None	thing

Examples

get some queues from sqs
receive some messages from the first queue
delete the first message

to get (queues) from sqs

FILTER - CAPABLE

Lists all queues available in SQS.

Output Concepts

Concept	Description	Type
queues	A list of queue URLs	text

Examples

get some queues from sqs

to receive (messages) from a queue

Receives messages from an SQS queue.

Input Concepts

Concept	Description	Type	Required	Default Value
queue	The URL of the Amazon SQS queue to receive messages from	text	Yes	(no default)
max amount	Maximum number of messages to return	number	No	1
visibility timeout	The duration in seconds that the received messages are hidden	number	No	(no default)

Output Concepts

Concept	Description	Type
messages	A list of messages from the queue	sqs message

Examples

get some queues from sqs
receive some messages from the first queue

to send a message to a queue

Sends a message to an SQS queue.

Input Concepts

Concept	Description	Type	Required	Default Value
queue	The URL of the Amazon SQS queue to send a message to	text	Yes	(no default)
body	The message to send	text	Yes	(no default)
attributes	Message attributes for the message	json	No	(no default)

Output Concepts

Concept	Description	Type
answer	Information about the sent message including MessageId	json

Examples

get some queues from sqs
send a message to the first queue
   the body is "Hello, world!"