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

I was just trying the same and with the help of these two attributes setMaxNumberOfMessages and setWaitTimeSeconds i was able to get 10 messages.

ReceiveMessageRequest receiveMessageRequest = new ReceiveMessageRequest(myQueueUrl);
                      receiveMessageRequest.setMaxNumberOfMessages(10);
                      receiveMessageRequest.setWaitTimeSeconds(20);

Snapshot of o/p:

Receiving messages from TestQueue.
Number of messages:10
Message
MessageId:     31a7c669-1f0c-4bf1-b18b-c7fa31f4e82d 
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