AWS SDK Version 3 for .NET
API Reference

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Delivers a message to the specified queue.

A message can include only XML, JSON, and unformatted text. The following Unicode characters are allowed. For more information, see the W3C specification for characters.

#x9 | #xA | #xD | #x20 to #xD7FF | #xE000 to #xFFFD | #x10000 to #x10FFFF

Amazon SQS does not throw an exception or completely reject the message if it contains invalid characters. Instead, it replaces those invalid characters with U+FFFD before storing the message in the queue, as long as the message body contains at least one valid character.

Note:

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

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

Syntax

C#
public virtual SendMessageResponse SendMessage(
         String queueUrl,
         String messageBody
)

Parameters

queueUrl
Type: System.String

The URL of the Amazon SQS queue to which a message is sent. Queue URLs and names are case-sensitive.

messageBody
Type: System.String

The message to send. The minimum size is one character. The maximum size is 256 KiB. A message can include only XML, JSON, and unformatted text. The following Unicode characters are allowed. For more information, see the W3C specification for characters. #x9 | #xA | #xD | #x20 to #xD7FF | #xE000 to #xFFFD | #x10000 to #x10FFFF Amazon SQS does not throw an exception or completely reject the message if it contains invalid characters. Instead, it replaces those invalid characters with U+FFFD before storing the message in the queue, as long as the message body contains at least one valid character.

Return Value


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

Exceptions

ExceptionCondition
InvalidAddressException The accountId is invalid.
InvalidMessageContentsException The message contains characters outside the allowed set.
InvalidSecurityException When the request to a queue is not HTTPS and SigV4.
KmsAccessDeniedException The caller doesn't have the required KMS access.
KmsDisabledException The request was denied due to request throttling.
KmsInvalidKeyUsageException The request was rejected for one of the following reasons: The KeyUsage value of the KMS key is incompatible with the API operation. The encryption algorithm or signing algorithm specified for the operation is incompatible with the type of key material in the KMS key (KeySpec).
KmsInvalidStateException The request was rejected because the state of the specified resource is not valid for this request.
KmsNotFoundException The request was rejected because the specified entity or resource could not be found.
KmsOptInRequiredException The request was rejected because the specified key policy isn't syntactically or semantically correct.
KmsThrottledException Amazon Web Services KMS throttles requests for the following conditions.
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.

Version Information

.NET Framework:
Supported in: 4.5 and newer, 3.5

See Also