Clojure agents consuming from a queue

Question

I\'m trying to figure out the best way to use agents to consume items from a Message Queue (Amazon SQS). Right now I have a function (process-queue-item) that grabs an item

Answer 1

Not sure how idiomatic this is, as I'm still a newbie with the language, but the following solution works for me:

(let [number-of-messages-per-time 2
      await-timeout 1000]
  (doseq [p-messages (partition number-of-messages-per-time messages)]
    (let [agents (map agent p-messages)]
      (doseq [a agents] (send-off a process))
      (apply await-for await-timeout agents)
      (map deref agents))))