adding stop functionality for graceful shutdown

jegesh / python-sqs-listener

A simple wrapper for boto3 for listening, and sending, to an AWS SQS queue

Other

154 stars 72 forks source link

adding stop functionality for graceful shutdown #59

Open odedva opened 1 year ago

odedva commented 1 year ago

adding an internal variable _should_listen for managing the state of the endless for loop
- this variable also will stop the messages loop in case there are many messages received in the batch
exposing a stop function to stop listening and making the listen function to return

odedva commented 1 year ago

hey - @jegesh would you be able to take a look on this ?

jegesh commented 11 months ago

Hi! Thanks for the contribution. I'm just not clear on the use case you're addressing in this PR. Please explain

odedva commented 11 months ago

hey - if this is running in a thread, it would be nice to be able to gracefully shutdown the consumption of messages so the application that manages this thread with listener can ext nicely