VisibilityTimeout Property

The visibility duration for messages in the queue.

Object Oriented Interface

public function getVisibilityTimeout();
public function setVisibilityTimeout($value);

Procedural Interface

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Default Value

-1

Remarks

Visibility timeout is used to guard against multiple delivery. Successive calls to ListMessages on a queue will not return any message again until the timeout expires, after which the message may reappear unless deleted with DeleteMessage.

A default visibility timeout is configured when a queue is created using CreateQueue, it can also be altered when a message is added using CreateMessage or when they are retrieved using ListMessages.

The default value for VisibilityTimeout is -1, which notifies the component that you would like to use the default behavior for the current Queue.

Data Type

Integer