Azure Service Bus

The following additional properties are displayed at Azure Service Bus queue providers:

•      Connectivity test: as Amazon Simple Queue Service (see above).

•      Queue type: this dropdown allows you to specify the type of queue to be use.  It exposes the values ‘Service Bus’ (the default) and ‘Storage’.

•      Connection string: a connection string must be supplied in order to connect to the Azure queue.  Provision of a value for this property is mandatory.

•      API call max. retry: this integer property is shown when Queue type is set to ‘Service Bus’.  It allows you to specify the number of attempts to be made when an API call fails.  It defaults to 10, and supports a range of values from 5 to 30.

•      Receive timeout: this integer property is shown when Queue type is set to ‘Service Bus’.  It allows you to specify the time, in seconds, for which the activity will wait for receiving messages to complete.  It defaults to 1, and supports a range of values from 1 to 10.

•      Send batch size: this integer property is shown when Queue type is set to ‘Service Bus’.  It allows you to specify the maximum number of messages to be sent at a time to Azure.

•      Send visibility timeout: this integer property is shown when Queue type is set to ‘Storage’.  It allows you to specify a timeout value, in minutes, for which a message will remain in the queue when processing fails.

•      Receive visibility timeout: this integer property is shown when Queue type is set to ‘Storage’.  It allows you to specify a timeout value, in minutes, for which a message will remain in the queue when processing fails.