IronMQ Java Client

Getting Started

There are three ways to get this package.

1. Add it as a Maven dependency, using the repository http://iron-io.github.com/maven/repository. Your pom.xml will look something like:

    <repositories>
        <repository>
            <id>iron-io-repo</id>
            <name>Iron.io Maven repository on GitHub</name>
            <url>http://iron-io.github.com/maven/repository/</url>
        </repository>
    </repositories>

    <dependencies>
        <!-- IronMQ message queue client -->
        <dependency>
            <groupId>ironmq</groupId>
            <artifactId>ironmq</artifactId>
            <version>0.0.10</version>
            <scope>compile</scope>
        </dependency>
    </dependencies>

2. Download the jar.

3. Build from source with Apache Buildr:

   buildr package

The .jar file will appear under the target directory.

The Basics

The full API is documented here, but here are some quick snippets to get you started.

Initialize a client and get a queue object:

Client client = new Client("my project", "my token", Cloud.IronAWSUSEast);
Queue queue = client.queue("my_queue");

Push a message on the queue:

queue.push("Hello, world!");

Pop a message off the queue:

Message msg = queue.get();

When you pop/get a message from the queue, it will not be deleted. It will eventually go back onto the queue after a timeout if you don't delete it. (The default timeout is 60 seconds.)

Delete a message from the queue:

queue.deleteMessage(msg);