VisibilityTimeout Property

The visibility duration for messages in the queue.

Syntax

 getVisibilityTimeout(): number;

 setVisibilityTimeout(visibilityTimeout: number): void;

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.

Note: Unlike messages received from standard queues, messages received from FIFO queues can only be deleted within their VisibilityTimeout. Attempting to call DeleteMessage for a message received from a FIFO queue after its VisibilityTimeout has expired will cause the server to return an error. Keep this in mind when picking a VisibilityTimeout value to create a FIFO queue and/or retrieve messages with.