I have a question about the REST API and Selectors. I was trying to use the REST API to process messages from a queue using a Selector against the JMSTimestamp setting. No matter what I tried, it seemed to ignore the selector. I am now trying a Java consumer route, but was curious why the REST API wouldn't work.
I tried using the "Consuming with selectors" example that I found on https://activemq.apache.org/rest. I tried both wget and curl and it seems to ignore the selector. Is there any magic trick to sending the selector when using the REST API? The use case is the following: we are using a virtual destination to essentially create an audit type queue so that we have a record of the messages that are processed through the queue. This helps with troubleshooting issues. Over time, that audit queue grows. My goal is to keep the most recent 30-60 days of those audit messages and remove the rest from that queue. I was hoping to write a simple script that I could run on cron once a week/once a month to cleanup the audit queues. Otherwise, they just keep growing and consume the disk space. I have the following in a shell script file (variables do get resolved via the script) CHECK_RETURN=`curl -s --header "selector: JMSTimestamp<1663113600000" -XGET --netrc-file ${SCRIPT_NETRC_FILENAME} ${ACTIVE_MQ_HOST_URL}:${queue_port}/api/message/MY_QUEUE_Backup?readTimeout=1000\&type=queue\&clientId=cleanupConsumer` If I run in verbose mode, I can see that the header is being sent, but it doesn't seem to obey it. I inherited the support of the Queue and based on reading over the past couple of days, we probably need to look at TTL and the like. In the meantime, I am curious if anyone has any suggestions on using the selector with the REST API. Thanks for any suggestions anyone has. I spent a long time trying to get it to work and tried multiple things (-H instead of -header, different quoting, epoch time format vs milliseconds since epoch, etc.) Now I am just curious as to why it wouldn't work. I tried searching the archives, but I didn't see anything. Several Google searches did not provide anything useful either. Thanks, Michael
