SQS Publish Operator¶

Prerequisite Tasks
Using Operator
More information

Prerequisite Tasks ¶

To use these operators, you must do a few things:

Create necessary resources using AWS Console or AWS CLI.
Install API libraries via pip.
pip install 'apache-airflow[amazon]'
Detailed information is available Installation
Setup Connection.

Using Operator ¶

Use the SqsPublishOperator to publish a message to Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS).

In the following example, the task "publish_to_queue" publishes a message containing the task instance and the execution date to a queue named Airflow-Example-Queue.

airflow/providers/amazon/aws/example_dags/example_sqs.py[source]

    # Using a task-decorated function to create an SQS queue
    create_queue = create_queue_fn()

    publish_to_queue = SqsPublishOperator(
        task_id='publish_to_queue',
        sqs_queue=create_queue,
        message_content="{{ task_instance }}-{{ execution_date }}",
        message_attributes=None,
        delay_seconds=0,
    )

    read_from_queue = SqsSensor(
        task_id='read_from_queue',
        sqs_queue=create_queue,
        max_messages=5,
        wait_time_seconds=1,
        visibility_timeout=None,
        message_filtering=None,
        message_filtering_match_values=None,
        message_filtering_config=None,
    )

    # Using a task-decorated function to delete the SQS queue we created earlier
    delete_queue = delete_queue_fn(create_queue)

    create_queue >> publish_to_queue >> read_from_queue >> delete_queue

More information ¶

For further information, look at the documentation of send_message() method in boto3.

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