Getting the Message from MQ – Source Code Java

Today I want to share something new with you which I have learnt few days back.

I was asked to build an application which will consume messages from a messaging queue from remote machine and save into the local machine.

When I saw the MQ, it was IBM websphere MQ in which can manually put the message and test whether our code of getting the message is working or not.

Before walking through the code, it is important to go through the basic terminologies. So please google it and find some useful stuff.

If you happen to install IBM websphere MQ, you will find some of parameters of MQ which we will require to connect to MQ. We will put those parameters into a properties file (ConsumerProperties.properties), so that we can change it without changing the source code.

We assume that the message in the queue will be of XML type and we store the message into an XML file only.

The entries in the properties file will be like the following:

hostName=The host where the MQ server exists; localhost, if locally MQ server is set
qmgrName=Queue Manager Name where channels and the queues are established
port=the port with which the channel is connected
channel=SYSTEM.DEF.SVRCONN
msgFileName=./ConsumedXMLFile
msgDir=./
qName=Queue Name where the message actually comes

Source Code


import com.ibm.mq.*;
import java.util.*;
import java.io.*;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;

public class JConsumer {
private MQQueueManager mqQueueManager; // QMGR object
private MQQueue queue; // Queue object
private int openOptionInquire; // Open options
private String hostName; // host name
private String channel; // server connection channel
private String port; // port number on which the QMGR is running
private String qmgrName; // queue manager name
private String qName; // queue name
private String msgFileName; // message file name
private String msgDir;
private static String dateStringPre = new String();
private static String dateStringPost = new String();
private static String dateStringPreTemp = new String();
private static String dateStringPostTemp = new String();
private static boolean statusFlag = false;



private void startDownloading() {

try{
JConsumer MQBrowse = new JConsumer();
MQBrowse.init();
} catch( Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}

public void init() {

try{
String fileName = "./ConsumerProperties.properties";
this.readPropertyFile(fileName);
this.mqInit( );
System.out.println("Mq initializing started "+new Date());
} catch( Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}


private void mqInit( ) { // Initiation of the MQ parameter
try {

System.out.println("host name : " + hostName+"\n"
+"QMGR name : " + qmgrName+"\n"
+"port number : " + port+"\n"
+"channel : " + channel+"\n"
+"file name : " + msgFileName+"\n"
+"queue name : " + qName+"\n"
+"\n");

mqOperations();
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}

}

public void mqOperations() throws Exception { // connect, open, browse, close & disconnects

try {
mqConnect(); // queue manager connection
mqOpen(); // pens the queue & browse
mqClose(); // close the queue
mqDisconnect(); // disconects the queue manager
}

catch (Exception exp) {
exp.printStackTrace();
}


} //mqOperations ends here


private void mqConnect() throws Exception { // Connection to the queue manager
try {
MQEnvironment.hostname = hostName;
MQEnvironment.channel = channel;
MQEnvironment.port = Integer.parseInt(port);

System.out.println("Connecting to ---------- "+hostName + " ---------- " + channel + " ----------- " + port);

mqQueueManager = new MQQueueManager(qmgrName);
System.out.println("Qmgr ---------- " + qmgrName + " connection successfull ");
}

catch ( MQException mqExp) {
System.out.println("Error in connecting to queue manager -- "+qmgrName+" with CC : " + mqExp.completionCode +" RC : " + mqExp.reasonCode);
mqClose();
mqDisconnect();
}
}



private void mqDisconnect() { // disconnect to queue manager
try {
mqQueueManager.disconnect();
System.out.println("Qmgr : " + qmgrName + " disconnect successfull ");
}

catch ( MQException mqExp) {
System.out.println("Error in queue manager disconnect...."+"QMGR Name : " + qmgrName+"CC : " + mqExp.completionCode+"RC : " + mqExp.reasonCode);
}
} // end of mqDisconnect


private void mqOpen() throws MQException {
try {
int openOption = 0;

openOption = MQC.MQOO_BROWSE MQC.MQOO_INPUT_SHARED; // open options for browse & share

queue = mqQueueManager.accessQueue(qName, openOption,qmgrName,null,null);

MQGetMessageOptions getMessageOptions = new MQGetMessageOptions();
getMessageOptions.options = MQC.MQOO_INPUT_AS_Q_DEF;
//MQC.MQGMO_BROWSE_FIRST MQC.MQGMO_WAIT ; //for browsing
getMessageOptions.waitInterval = MQC.MQWI_UNLIMITED;
//MQC.MQWI_UNLIMITED;
// for waiting unlimted times
// waits unlimited
MQMessage message = new MQMessage();
BufferedWriter writer ;
String strMsg;

try {
System.out.println( "waiting for message ... ");
queue.get(message, getMessageOptions);
System.out.println( "Get message sucessfull... ");
byte[] b = new byte[message.getMessageLength()];
message.readFully(b);
strMsg = new String(b);
System.out.println("\n"+strMsg);
// if empty message, close the queue...
if ( strMsg.trim().equals("") ) {
System.out.println("empty message, closing the queue ..." + qName);
}
message.clearMessage();
writer = new BufferedWriter(new FileWriter(msgFileName+"_"+new SimpleDateFormat("yyyyMMddhhmmss").format(new Date())+".xml", true));
writer.write("\n");
writer.write(new String(b));
writer.write("\n");
writer.close();
getMessageOptions.options = MQC.MQOO_INPUT_AS_Q_DEF;
//MQC.MQGMO_BROWSE_NEXT MQC.MQGMO_WAIT ;
} catch (IOException e) {
System.out.println("IOException during GET in mqOpen: " + e.getMessage());
}
} catch ( MQException mqExp) {
System.out.println("Error in opening queue ...."+"Queue Name : " + qName+" CC : " + mqExp.completionCode+" RC : " + mqExp.reasonCode);
mqClose();
mqDisconnect();
}

} //end of mqOpen

private void mqClose() { // close the queue
try {
queue.close();
} catch (MQException mqExp) {
System.out.println("Error in closing queue ...."+"Queue Name : " + qName+" CC : " + mqExp.completionCode+" RC : " + mqExp.reasonCode);
}

}

private void readPropertyFile(String fileName) throws Exception { // reading from the property file
try {
Properties mqProperties = new Properties();
FileInputStream fileInputStream = new FileInputStream(fileName);
mqProperties.load(fileInputStream);
hostName = mqProperties.getProperty("hostName");
qmgrName = mqProperties.getProperty("qmgrName");
port = mqProperties.getProperty("port");
channel = mqProperties.getProperty("channel");
msgFileName = mqProperties.getProperty("msgFileName");
qName = mqProperties.getProperty("qName");
msgDir = mqProperties.getProperty("msgDir");
fileInputStream.close();
} catch (Exception exp) {
exp.printStackTrace();
}
}

public static void main(String args[]){
JConsumer consumer = new JConsumer();
consumer.startDownloading();
}

}