Azure: How to move messages from poison queue to back to main queue?

Question

I'm wondering if there is a tool or lib that can move messages between queues? Currently, i'm doing something like below

public static void ProcessQueueMessage([QueueTrigger("myqueue-poison")] string message, TextWriter log)
{
    CloudStorageAccount storageAccount = CloudStorageAccount.Parse(connString);
    CloudQueueClient queueClient = storageAccount.CreateCloudQueueClient();
    CloudQueue queue = queueClient.GetQueueReference("myqueue");
    queue.CreateIfNotExists();

    var messageData = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(data, new JsonSerializerSettings { ContractResolver = new CamelCasePropertyNamesContractResolver() });
    queue.AddMessage(new CloudQueueMessage(messageData));
}

Answer 1

Essentially Azure Storage doesn't support moving messages from one queue to another. You would need to do this on your own.

One way to implement moving the messages from one queue to another is by dequeuing the messages from the source queue (by calling GetMessages), read the contents of the message and then creating a new message in the target queue. This you can do via using Storage Client Library.

One tool that comes to my mind for moving messages is Cerebrata Azure Management Studio(paid product with 15 days free trial). It has this functionality.

As at (2018-09-11) version 1.4.1 of the Microsoft Azure Storage Explorer doesn't support moving queue messages.