Send Messages to AWS SQS using Go
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- List Queues in AWS SQS using Go
- Delete Queues in AWS SQS using Go
- Send Messages to AWS SQS using Go
- Receive Messages from AWS SQS using Go
In order to work with AWS SQS using Go, we will use github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2. In this gist, we will use the aws-sdk-go-v2 package to send messages to a queue in AWS SQS. The complete source code for the snippet is available here https://github.com/abvarun226/blog-source-code/tree/master/send-messages-to-aws-sqs-using-go
In order to test the snippet, we will use localstack to run SQS emulator in a docker container on the laptop. The container exposes SQS endpoint on port 4566. The snippet will then send a message to queue first-queue in SQS.
In order to start the localstack container, you will need to first install localstack:
$ pip install localstack
Localstack provides a fully functional local AWS cloud stack. It is a cloud service emulator that runs in a single container on a laptop or a development machine.
In order to start the AWS services, run:
$ localstack start -d
You can check the status of the services by running:
$ localstack status services
package main
import (
"context"
"flag"
"log"
"github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/aws"
"github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/config"
"github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/service/sqs"
"github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/service/sqs/types"
)
type SQSQueueAPI interface {
GetQueueUrl(ctx context.Context,
params *sqs.GetQueueUrlInput,
optFns ...func(*sqs.Options)) (*sqs.GetQueueUrlOutput, error)
SendMessage(ctx context.Context,
params *sqs.SendMessageInput,
optFns ...func(*sqs.Options)) (*sqs.SendMessageOutput, error)
}
func GetQueueURL(c context.Context, api SQSQueueAPI, input *sqs.GetQueueUrlInput) (*sqs.GetQueueUrlOutput, error) {
return api.GetQueueUrl(c, input)
}
func SendMessage(c context.Context, api SQSQueueAPI, input *sqs.SendMessageInput) (*sqs.SendMessageOutput, error) {
return api.SendMessage(c, input)
}
// creates an sqs client.
func client(ctx context.Context, awsURL, region string) *sqs.Client {
// customResolver is required here since we use localstack and need to point the aws url to localhost.
customResolver := aws.EndpointResolverWithOptionsFunc(func(service, region string, options ...interface{}) (aws.Endpoint, error) {
return aws.Endpoint{
PartitionID: "aws",
URL: awsURL,
SigningRegion: region,
}, nil
})
// load the default aws config along with custom resolver.
cfg, err := config.LoadDefaultConfig(ctx, config.WithEndpointResolverWithOptions(customResolver))
if err != nil {
log.Fatalf("configuration error: %v", err)
}
return sqs.NewFromConfig(cfg)
}
// send a message to a queue.
func sendMessage(ctx context.Context, c *sqs.Client, queue *string) {
// Get the URL for the queue
input := &sqs.GetQueueUrlInput{
QueueName: queue,
}
resultGet, err := GetQueueURL(ctx, c, input)
if err != nil {
log.Printf("error getting the queue URL: %v", err)
return
}
queueURL := resultGet.QueueUrl
// Send a message with attributes to the given queue
messageInput := &sqs.SendMessageInput{
DelaySeconds: 10,
MessageAttributes: map[string]types.MessageAttributeValue{
"Blog": {
DataType: aws.String("String"),
StringValue: aws.String("The Code Library"),
},
"Article": {
DataType: aws.String("Number"),
StringValue: aws.String("10"),
},
},
MessageBody: aws.String("article about sending a message to AWS SQS using Go"),
QueueUrl: queueURL,
}
resp, err := SendMessage(ctx, c, messageInput)
if err != nil {
log.Printf("error sending the message: %v", err)
return
}
log.Printf("Message ID: %s", *resp.MessageId)
}
func main() {
ctx := context.TODO()
// name of the queue as a command line option.
queue := flag.String("q", "", "name of the queue")
flag.Parse()
// queue cannot be empty string.
if *queue == "" {
log.Println("-q argument is required. Specify a name for the queue")
return
}
awsURL := "http://127.0.0.1:4566"
awsRegion := "us-west-2"
// create aws client
c := client(ctx, awsURL, awsRegion)
// send a message to the given queue
sendMessage(ctx, c, queue)
}
Output:
➜ export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=foobar
➜ export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=foobar
➜ go build -o sqs .
➜ ./sqs -q first-queue
2022/09/28 23:33:20 Message ID: f580676f-79f1-4b42-9a99-99df04b5299e