AWS SDK Version 3 for .NET
API Reference

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Gets attributes for the specified queue.

To determine whether a queue is FIFO, you can check whether QueueName ends with the .fifo suffix.

Note:

For .NET Core this operation is only available in asynchronous form. Please refer to GetQueueAttributesAsync.

Namespace: Amazon.SQS
Assembly: AWSSDK.SQS.dll
Version: 3.x.y.z

Syntax

C#
public virtual GetQueueAttributesResponse GetQueueAttributes(
         GetQueueAttributesRequest request
)

Parameters

request
Type: Amazon.SQS.Model.GetQueueAttributesRequest

Container for the necessary parameters to execute the GetQueueAttributes service method.

Return Value


The response from the GetQueueAttributes service method, as returned by SQS.

Exceptions

ExceptionCondition
InvalidAddressException The accountId is invalid.
InvalidAttributeNameException The specified attribute doesn't exist.
InvalidSecurityException When the request to a queue is not HTTPS and SigV4.
QueueDoesNotExistException The specified queue doesn't exist.
RequestThrottledException The request was denied due to request throttling. The rate of requests per second exceeds the Amazon Web Services KMS request quota for an account and Region. A burst or sustained high rate of requests to change the state of the same KMS key. This condition is often known as a "hot key." Requests for operations on KMS keys in a Amazon Web Services CloudHSM key store might be throttled at a lower-than-expected rate when the Amazon Web Services CloudHSM cluster associated with the Amazon Web Services CloudHSM key store is processing numerous commands, including those unrelated to the Amazon Web Services CloudHSM key store.
UnsupportedOperationException Error code 400. Unsupported operation.

Examples

This example shows how to get queue attributes.

Get queue attributes example

var client = new AmazonSQSClient();

var request = new GetQueueAttributesRequest
{
  QueueUrl = "https://sqs.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/80398EXAMPLE/MyTestQueue",
  AttributeNames = new List<string>() { "All" }
};

var response = client.GetQueueAttributes(request);

Console.WriteLine("Attributes for queue ARN '" + response.QueueARN + "':");
Console.WriteLine("  Approximate number of messages:" +
  response.ApproximateNumberOfMessages);
Console.WriteLine("  Approximate number of messages delayed: " +
  response.ApproximateNumberOfMessagesDelayed);
Console.WriteLine("  Approximate number of messages not visible: " +
  response.ApproximateNumberOfMessagesNotVisible);
Console.WriteLine("  Queue created on: " + response.CreatedTimestamp);
Console.WriteLine("  Delay seconds: " + response.DelaySeconds);
Console.WriteLine("  Queue last modified on: " +
  response.LastModifiedTimestamp);
Console.WriteLine("  Maximum message size: " +
  response.MaximumMessageSize);
Console.WriteLine("  Message retention period: " +
  response.MessageRetentionPeriod);
Console.WriteLine("  Visibility timeout: " + response.VisibilityTimeout);
Console.WriteLine("  Policy: " + response.Policy);
Console.WriteLine("  Attributes:");

foreach (var attr in response.Attributes)
{
  Console.WriteLine("    " + attr.Key + ": " + attr.Value);
}
      

Version Information

.NET Framework:
Supported in: 4.5, 4.0, 3.5

See Also