sqs-move-with-attrs

Moves all messages including its attributes from one AWS SQS queue to another. Expected moving performance is 10K messages per minute.

Prerequisite

• Node.js 8.10 or later
• optionally yarn 1 or later

Features

• Batch messages processing and concurrent promises fulfillment provide high performance
• Messages are deleting from source queue only if they have been successfully sent to destination queue
• Message attributes are copied over
• CLI tool supports SQS names instead of full URLs

Install

Install as Command Line Interface (CLI) tool

npm install -g sqs-move-with-attrs

or

yarn global add sqs-move-with-attrs

Install to local directory

Clone project repository from github to the local folder and run

yarn install

Configuration

Empty configuration object and Default Credential Provider chain are used in CLI to create AWS SQS client.

AWS credentials and AWS region configuration should be supplied to SDK either through shared credentials file / shared config file either through environment variables.

If AWS region not specified in AWS config file please define it via AWS_REGION environment variable.

Usage

if module installed as CLI tool

sqs-move-with-attrs <source_SQS_URL_or_name> <destination_SQS_URL_or_name>

if module installed to local directory

yarn move <source_SQS_URL_or_name> <destination_SQS_URL_or_name>

Example of using from Node.js/Typescript

Node.js

const {SQS} = require("aws-sdk");
const {SqsMoveWithAttrs} = require("sqs-move-with-attrs");
...

Typescript

import {SQS} from "aws-sdk"
import {SqsMoveWithAttrs} from "sqs-move-with-attrs";
...

common part of script

const sqsClient = new SQS({region:'us-east-1'});
const sqsMoveWithAttrs = new SqsMoveWithAttrs(
    sqsClient,
    "https://sqs.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/<accountId>/sqs-name-dlq",
    "https://sqs.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/<accountId>/sqs-name");
(async () => {
    try {
        await sqsMoveWithAttrs.move();
    } catch (err) {
        console.error(err);
        process.exit(-1)
    }
})();