Peek/Message count/Get message

How can you access those?
Can i Peek messages as in AzureStorage?
StartWorkingAsync description says it dequeues the messages, what if i just want to iterate over them?

[niemyjski]

Hello,

Thanks for reaching out to us. Currently we don't have the ability to peek messages. What is your use cases for dequeueing a message but not doing anything with them? One danger with peeking them is when you have multiple consumers.

Hi, Thanks for the reply.

i am replacing the Microsoft.Azure library with the Foundatio one and have some old code i need to support.
I do not want to dequeue a message (sorry if that was not clear), i just want to get some details out of it and leave it in the queue "as is".
For example:

1. Getting the oldest queued message date/time (The question about message count/get date)
2. Make sure a guid that is in the message is a valid Entity guid, before processing it (The one about peeking)

[ejsmith]

@Rafael-Herscovici we don't currently have the ability to peek the next item in the queue abstraction. That seems like it might be a good feature to add, but we need to be careful because it needs to be implementable on all platforms that we support (Redis, SQS, ServiceBus, etc).

[dviry]

I guess that's usually the drawback of a common generic interface - I've tackled such issues by having IHasXFeature markers that then apply only to the implementations actually supporting it (i.e. IQueueHasPeek with it's own Peek() method) - that way not all providers need to implement it (and also allows for a "phased-in" implementation instead of breaking it all at once)