How can I access queue messages in Azure using Python?

Question

I have some data in the queues which I want to access in my python code.

I am using the following code:

from azure.storage.queue import QueueService

queue_service = QueueService(account_name='', account_key='')

messages = queue_service.get_messages('queue', num_messages=5)

for message in messages:
    print(message.id)
    print(message.content)

But the output of the content is in the form of some coded message.

How do I decode it?

Answer 1

You could use print(base64.b64decode(message.content)).

from azure.storage.queue import QueueService
import base64

queue_service = QueueService(account_name='', account_key='')

messages = queue_service.get_messages('queue', num_messages=5)

for message in messages:
    print(message.id)
    print(message.content)
    print(base64.b64decode(message.content))

Answer 2

from azure.storage.queue import QueueService, QueueMessageFormat
queue_service = QueueService(account_name=account_name, account_key=account_key)
#queue_service.encode_function = QueueMessageFormat.binary_base64decode
queue_service.decode_function = QueueMessageFormat.binary_base64decode
messages = queue_service.get_messages(...