[rabbitmq-discuss] Retrieve N messages from queue?

[Michael Klishin]

On May 2, 2014 at 6:19:35 PM, Scott McFadden (scott.kendall.mcfadden at gmail.com) wrote:
> > Is it possible to look at the queue size in rabbit MQ from client  
> code?

declare the queue (possibly with passive = true) and see message count on
the response (queue.declare-ok)

> Is it possible to pop multiple messages off the queue at  
> the same time? I have a queue full of error messages that needs  
> to periodically be emailed to a given list of people. Don't necessarily  
> want to send an email for each message as the rate of errors could  
> occasionally be quite high resulting in email spam and pressure  
> on the mail server.

You can do the batching in the client or consume N times with basic.get, one by one. 
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MK  

Software Engineer, Pivotal/RabbitMQ