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8.8. AWS-SQS

SQS Component

Available as of Camel 2.6
The sqs component supports sending and receiving messages to Amazon's SQS service.
Prerequisites
You must have a valid Amazon Web Services developer account, and be signed up to use Amazon SQS. More information are available at Amazon SQS.

URI Format

aws-sqs://queue-name[?options]
The queue will be created if they don't already exists. You can append query options to the URI in the following format, ?options=value&option2=value&...

URI Options

Name Default Value Context Description
amazonSQSClient null Shared Reference to a com.amazonaws.services.sqs.AmazonSQS in the Registry.
accessKey null Shared Amazon AWS Access Key
secretKey null Shared Amazon AWS Secret Key
amazonSQSEndpoint null Shared The region with which the AWS-SQS client wants to work with.
attributeNames null Consumer A list of attributes to set in the com.amazonaws.services.sqs.model.ReceiveMessageRequest.
defaultVisibilityTimeout null Shared The visibility timeout (in seconds) to set in the com.amazonaws.services.sqs.model.CreateQueueRequest.
deleteAfterRead true Consumer Delete message from SQS after it has been read
maxMessagesPerPoll null Consumer The maximum number of messages which can be received in one poll to set in the com.amazonaws.services.sqs.model.ReceiveMessageRequest.
visibilityTimeout null Shared The duration (in seconds) that the received messages are hidden from subsequent retrieve requests after being retrieved by a ReceiveMessage request to set in the com.amazonaws.services.sqs.model.SetQueueAttributesRequest. This only make sense if its different from defaultVisibilityTimeout. It changes the queue visibility timeout attribute permanently.
messageVisibilityTimeout null Consumer Camel 2.8: The duration (in seconds) that the received messages are hidden from subsequent retrieve requests after being retrieved by a ReceiveMessage request to set in the com.amazonaws.services.sqs.model.ReceiveMessageRequest. It does NOT change the queue visibility timeout attribute permanently.
extendMessageVisibility false Consumer Camel 2.10: If enabled then a scheduled background task will keep extending the message visibility on SQS. This is needed if it taks a long time to process the message. If set to true defaultVisibilityTimeout must be set. See details at Amazon docs.
maximumMessageSize null Shared Camel 2.8: The maximumMessageSize (in bytes) an SQS message can contain for this queue, to set in the com.amazonaws.services.sqs.model.SetQueueAttributesRequest.
messageRetentionPeriod null Shared Camel 2.8: The messageRetentionPeriod (in seconds) a message will be retained by SQS for this queue, to set in the com.amazonaws.services.sqs.model.SetQueueAttributesRequest.
policy null Shared Camel 2.8: The policy for this queue to set in the com.amazonaws.services.sqs.model.SetQueueAttributesRequest.
delaySeconds null Producer Camel 2.9.3: Delay sending messages for a number of seconds.
waitTimeSeconds 0 Producer Camel 2.11: Duration in seconds (0 to 20) that the ReceiveMessage action call will wait until a message is in the queue to include in the response.
receiveMessageWaitTimeSeconds 0 Shared Camel 2.11: If you do not specify WaitTimeSeconds in the request, the queue attribute ReceiveMessageWaitTimeSeconds is used to determine how long to wait.
queueOwnerAWSAccountId null Camel 2.12: Specify the queue owner aws account id when you need to connect the queue with different account owner.
Required SQS component options
You have to provide the amazonSQSClient in the Registry or your accessKey and secretKey to access the Amazon's SQS.

Batch Consumer

This component implements the Batch Consumer.
This allows you for instance to know how many messages exists in this batch and for instance let the Aggregator aggregate this number of messages.

Usage

Message headers set by the SQS producer

Header Type Description
CamelAwsSqsMD5OfBody String The MD5 checksum of the Amazon SQS message.
CamelAwsSqsMessageId String The Amazon SQS message ID.
CamelAwsSqsDelaySeconds Integer Since Camel 2.11, the delay seconds that the Amazon SQS message can be see by others.

Message headers set by the SQS consumer

Header Type Description
CamelAwsSqsMD5OfBody String The MD5 checksum of the Amazon SQS message.
CamelAwsSqsMessageId String The Amazon SQS message ID.
CamelAwsSqsReceiptHandle String The Amazon SQS message receipt handle.
CamelAwsSqsAttributes Map<String, String> The Amazon SQS message attributes.

Advanced AmazonSQS configuration

If your Camel Application is running behind a firewall or if you need to have more control over the AmazonSQS instance configuration, you can create your own instance: 
AWSCredentials awsCredentials = new BasicAWSCredentials("myAccessKey", "mySecretKey");

ClientConfiguration clientConfiguration = new ClientConfiguration();
clientConfiguration.setProxyHost("http://myProxyHost");
clientConfiguration.setProxyPort(8080);

AmazonSQS client = new AmazonSQSClient(awsCredentials, clientConfiguration);

registry.bind("client", client);
and refer to it in your Camel aws-sqs component configuration: 
from("aws-sqs://MyQueue?amazonSQSClient=#client&delay=5000&maxMessagesPerPoll=5")
.to("mock:result");

Dependencies

Maven users will need to add the following dependency to their pom.xml.
pom.xml
<dependency>
    <groupId>org.apache.camel</groupId>
    <artifactId>camel-aws</artifactId>
    <version>${camel-version}</version>
</dependency>
where $\{camel-version\} must be replaced by the actual version of Camel (2.6 or higher).