Is there a way to gracefully drain a queue?

[kolbrich]

Given the current capabilities of HornetQ, is there a way to place a queue into a mode where it will not accept any new messages while continuing to process existing ones?

This might be helpful in maintenance or upgrade situations where one might want to drain all the messages from a queue before shutting it down or upgrading it.

For the purposes of this question, assume that I have no control over the message producers (which might be remote).

Thanks,

Kevin

[jbertram]

The only management operation I know of similar to this is the "pause" operation for a queue.  However, that pauses consumers and doesn't impact producers.  It sounds like what you want is the opposite of this.  It sounds like a reasonable and useful feature.  You can open a JIRA for this at https://issues.jboss.org/browse/hornetq.

Are you thinking about contributing a patch for this functionality?

[kolbrich]

Looks like someone has already filed https://issues.jboss.org/browse/HORNETQ-960, which seems to cover this feature.