How to send service bus message to deadletter queue in NodeJS?

Question

How can I send message to deadletter queue?

serviceBusService.receiveQueueMessage(MESSAGE_QUEUE, {isPeekLock: true}, (error, message) => {
    ...... // want to put message to deadletter queue if there is exception
    serviceBusService.deleteMessage(message, error => {
    });
});

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 27 '19 at 09:15

Mostly, you'd want to rely on the system to decide when to move a message to DLQ and make it the messaging engine's responsibility as much as possible (and not explicitly put a message on DLQ.) It also appears that the guidance in this scenario was provided via documentation here: How to handle application crashes and unreadable messages

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 10 '20 at 00:50

Looks like you are using the older azure-sb package that relies on the HTTP REST apis. If you instead use the newer @azure/service-bus package which uses the faster AMQP implementation, there is a deadletter() method on the message you receive that you can use to send the message to the dead letter queue.

How to send service bus message to deadletter queue in NodeJS?

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