Retrieve multiple messages from SQS

Question

I have multiple messages in SQS. The following code always returns only one, even if there are dozens visible (not in flight). setMaxNumberOfMessages I th

Answer 1

AWS API Reference Guide: Query/QueryReceiveMessage

Due to the distributed nature of the queue, a weighted random set of machines is sampled on a ReceiveMessage call. That means only the messages on the sampled machines are returned. If the number of messages in the queue is small (less than 1000), it is likely you will get fewer messages than you requested per ReceiveMessage call. If the number of messages in the queue is extremely small, you might not receive any messages in a particular ReceiveMessage response; in which case you should repeat the request.

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MaxNumberOfMessages: Maximum number of messages to return. SQS never returns more messages than this value but might return fewer.