Programmatically read a Queue's parameters

Question

I've got a queue defined in queue.xml file

<queue-entries>
    <queue>
        <name>crawler</name>
        <rate>1/s</rate>
        <retry-parameters>
            ...
            <task-retry-limit>5</task-retry-limit>
        </retry-parameters>
    </queue>
</queue-entries>

To obtain a queue in Java I'm using simple code

Queue queue = QueueFactory.getQueue("crawler");

Now I need to obtain the task-retry-limit value for given queue. Is it possible? I haven't found any method to do so in javadoc.

Answer 1

It appears this is not possible.

If you look at the source code, you will see that there is no such functionality defined.

The only property you can retrieve is the name, with Queue.getName();

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I see no way to retrieve it using the current appengine api.

A hacky way as you call it, could be to parse the queue.xml file with an xml library, and extract the value manually.