How to run simple messaging system

Purpose

The solution is sending and receiving messages from a queue.

Prerequisites

You must have an AWS account, and have your default credentials and AWS Region configured as described in (https://docs.aws.amazon.com/sdkref/latest/guide/creds-config-files.html). The account must have AWS SQS permissions to be able to send and receive messages.
Python 3.7 or later
Boto 3 1.11.10 or later

Running the code

queues.py contains functions for working with a queue. client_sender.py is a client for sending messages to a queue. client_receiver.py is a client for receiving messages from a queue. input.txt is a text file with some input text. output.txt is a test file for the output.

Send messages:

For sending the messages to the queue use this command:

python3 -m client_sender.py

Make sure theese parameters are set properly: input_file - path to the input file queue_name - the name of the exising SQS queue

Receive messages:

For receiving the messages from the queue use this command:

python3 -m client_receiver.py

Make sure theese parameters are set properly: output_file - path to the output file queue_name - the name of the exising SQS queue