Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) is a hosted message queuing service for distributing messages amongst machines. You can configure API Gateway to poll an Amazon SQS queue at a set rate. Any message found on the SQS queue in this interval can be sent to a policy for processing.
For more information on Amazon SQS, go to http://aws.amazon.com/sqs/.
To add a new Amazon SQS queue listener, in the Policy Studio tree view, under the Listeners
node, right-click the instance name (for example, API Gateway
),
and select Amazon Web Services > Add SQS Queue Listener.
You can configure the following general settings for the Amazon SQS queue listener:
Name:
Enter a suitable name for this SQS listener.
AWS Credential:
Click the browse button to select your AWS security credentials (API key and secret) to be used by API Gateway when connecting to Amazon SQS.
Region:
Select the region appropriate for your deployment. You can choose from the following options:
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US East (Northern Virginia)
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US West (Oregon)
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US West (Northern California)
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EU (Ireland)
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Asia Pacific (Singapore)
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Asia Pacific (Tokyo)
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Asia Pacific (Sydney)
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South America (Sao Paulo)
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US GovCloud
Client settings:
Click the browse button to select the AWS client configuration to be used by API Gateway when connecting to Amazon SQS. For more information on configuring client settings, see the section called “Configure AWS client settings”.
Poll the queue <queueName> every <pollRate> milliseconds:
Enter the name of the queue to be polled and the rate at which the queue is to be polled, in milliseconds.
The default queue name is requestQueue
and the default poll rate is 10000
milliseconds (10 seconds).
Call policy:
Click the browse button to select a policy to send the message to for processing. When a message has been consumed from the queue it is passed to the selected policy for processing.
Process the retrieved messages as body with following Content Type:
Select this option to create a body from the message, and enter a content type. The default
content type is text/xml
.
Store the content of the retrieved messages in the following attribute:
Select this option to store the content of the message in an attribute, and enter the
attribute name. The default attribute name is sqs.body
.
Delete message on completion:
Select this option to delete the message from the queue when processing is complete. This option is selected by default.
Maximum number of messages to read from queue:
Enter the maximum number of messages to return. Amazon SQS never returns more messages than this
value but it might return less. The default value is 10
.
Visibility timeout for other consumers:
Enter the duration (in seconds) that the received messages are hidden from subsequent retrieve
requests after being retrieved by API Gateway. The default value is 1000
seconds.
Write a response message:
Select this option to write the contents of an attribute to a response queue. This option is not selected by default.
Response queue name:
If you selected the Write a response message option, enter the name of the response queue
in this field. The default name is responseQueue
.
Use content body as the response:
Select this option to use the content body as the response.
Use the following attribute as the response:
Select this option to use an attribute as the response, and enter an attribute selector for the attribute
containing the response in this field (for example, ${sqs.body}
). For more details on selectors,
see Selecting configuration values at runtime.
API Gateway is a client of AWS, and as such you can define a client profile by which API Gateway connects to AWS.
When you click the browse button on the Client settings field for an Amazon SQS queue listener, a Send to Amazon SQS filter, an Upload to Amazon S3 filter, or an Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) alert destination, you can edit the configuration of the AWS client profile.
To edit the configuration, right-click the Default AWS Client Configuration and select Edit. Configure the following settings on the dialog:
Name:
Enter a suitable name for this client configuration.
Maximum number of open HTTP connections:
Enter the maximum number of open HTTP connections. The default value is 50
.
Socket timeout:
Enter the amount of time to wait (in milliseconds) for data to be transferred over an
established, open connection before the connection is timed out. The default value is
50000
milliseconds. A value of 0 means infinity, and is not recommended.
Connection timeout:
Enter the amount of time to wait (in milliseconds) when initially establishing a connection
before giving up and timing out. The default value is 50000
milliseconds. A
value of 0 means infinity, and is not recommended.
Maximum number of retries:
Enter the maximum number of retry attempts for failed requests (requests that can be retried). The default
value is 3
.
User agent:
Enter the HTTP user agent header to send with all requests.
Protocol:
Select the protocol (HTTP or HTTPS) to use when connecting to AWS.
You can optionally configure the following proxy settings:
Proxy Host:
Enter the proxy host to connect through.
Proxy port:
Enter the port on the proxy host to connect through.
User name:
Enter the user name to use when connecting through a proxy.
Password:
Enter the password to use when connecting through a proxy.
NTLM Proxy support:
To configure Windows NT LAN Manager (NTLM) proxy support, enter the Windows domain name in the Windows domain field and enter the Windows workstation name in the Windows workstation name field.
You can optionally configure these settings to tune low level TCP parameters to try and improve performance.
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Size hint (in bytes) for the low level TCP send buffer:
Enter the size hint (in bytes) for the low level TCP send buffer.
Size hint (in bytes) for the low level TCP receive buffer:
Enter the size hint (in bytes) for the low level TCP receive buffer.