Work with Amazon Simple Queue Service message queues

A message queue is the logical container used for sending messages reliably in Amazon Simple Queue Service. There are two types of queues: standard and first-in, first-out (FIFO). To learn more about queues and the differences between these types, see the Amazon Simple Queue Service Developer Guide.

This topic describes how to create, list, delete, and get the URL of an Amazon Simple Queue Service queue by using the AWS SDK for Java.

The sqsClient variable that is used in the following examples can be created from the following snippet.

SqsClient sqsClient = SqsClient.create();

When you create an SqsClient by using the static create() method, the SDK configures the Region by using the default region provider chain and the credentials by using the default credentials provider chain.

Create a queue

Use the SqsClient’s createQueue method, and provide a CreateQueueRequest object that describes the queue parameters as shown in the following code snippet.

Imports

import software.amazon.awssdk.regions.Region;
import software.amazon.awssdk.services.sqs.SqsClient;
import software.amazon.awssdk.services.sqs.model.*;
import java.util.List;

Code

            CreateQueueRequest createQueueRequest = CreateQueueRequest.builder()
                .queueName(queueName)
                .build();

            sqsClient.createQueue(createQueueRequest);

See the complete sample on GitHub.

List queues

To list the Amazon Simple Queue Service queues for your account, call the SqsClient’s listQueues method with a ListQueuesRequest object.

When you use the form of the listQueues method that takes no parameters, the service returns all queues—up to 1,000 queues.

You can supply a queue name prefix to the ListQueuesRequest object to limit the results to queues that match that prefix as shown in the following code.

Imports

import software.amazon.awssdk.regions.Region;
import software.amazon.awssdk.services.sqs.SqsClient;
import software.amazon.awssdk.services.sqs.model.*;
import java.util.List;

Code

        String prefix = "que";

        try {
            ListQueuesRequest listQueuesRequest = ListQueuesRequest.builder().queueNamePrefix(prefix).build();
            ListQueuesResponse listQueuesResponse = sqsClient.listQueues(listQueuesRequest);

            for (String url : listQueuesResponse.queueUrls()) {
                System.out.println(url);
            }

        } catch (SqsException e) {
            System.err.println(e.awsErrorDetails().errorMessage());
            System.exit(1);
        }

See the complete sample on GitHub.

Get the URL for a queue

The following code shows how to get the URL for a queue by calling the SqsClient’s getQueueUrl method with a GetQueueUrlRequest object.

Imports

import software.amazon.awssdk.regions.Region;
import software.amazon.awssdk.services.sqs.SqsClient;
import software.amazon.awssdk.services.sqs.model.*;
import java.util.List;

Code

            GetQueueUrlResponse getQueueUrlResponse =
                sqsClient.getQueueUrl(GetQueueUrlRequest.builder().queueName(queueName).build());
            String queueUrl = getQueueUrlResponse.queueUrl();
            return queueUrl;

See the complete sample on GitHub.

Delete a queue

Provide the queue’s URL to the DeleteQueueRequest object. Then call the SqsClient’s deleteQueue method to delete a queue as shown in the following code.

Imports

import software.amazon.awssdk.regions.Region;
import software.amazon.awssdk.services.sqs.SqsClient;
import software.amazon.awssdk.services.sqs.model.*;
import java.util.List;

Code

    public static void deleteSQSQueue(SqsClient sqsClient, String queueName) {

        try {

            GetQueueUrlRequest getQueueRequest = GetQueueUrlRequest.builder()
                    .queueName(queueName)
                    .build();

            String queueUrl = sqsClient.getQueueUrl(getQueueRequest).queueUrl();

            DeleteQueueRequest deleteQueueRequest = DeleteQueueRequest.builder()
                    .queueUrl(queueUrl)
                    .build();

            sqsClient.deleteQueue(deleteQueueRequest);

        } catch (SqsException e) {
            System.err.println(e.awsErrorDetails().errorMessage());
            System.exit(1);
        }
    }

See the complete sample on GitHub.

More information

• CreateQueue in the Amazon Simple Queue Service API Reference

• GetQueueUrl in the Amazon Simple Queue Service API Reference

• ListQueues in the Amazon Simple Queue Service API Reference

• DeleteQueue in the Amazon Simple Queue Service API Reference