Message Queue(MSMQ) does not throw exception when message is not received on the other end - msmq

Let's say I try to send to an authenticated transactional queue,
by calling msg.send(object,MessageQueueTransactionType.Single), message does not receive in transactional queue, no exception thrown.
What I want to accomplish is after sending, if message fail to send, perform some function and abort transaction, yet it doesn't throw exception, so I am unable to process it.
I am sending object from Web Application in local to local message queue.
My code is as follows in my web application:
MessageQueueTransaction mqTran=new MessageQueueTransaction();
try
{
using(System.Messaging.Message msg=new System.Messaging.Message(){
mqTran.Begin();
MessageQueue adminQ = new MessageQueue(AdminQueuePath);
MessageQueue msgQ = new MessageQueue(queuePath);
msgQ.DefaultPropertiesToSend.Recoverable = true;
msg.body = object;
msg.Recoverable=true;
msg.Label="Object";
msg.TimeToReachQueue=new TimeSpan(0,0,30);
msg.AcknowledgeType=AcknowledgeTypes.FullReachQueue;
msg.ResponseQueue=adminQ;
msg.AdministrationQueue=adminQ;
msgQ1.Send(msg,MessageQueueTransactionType.Single);
mqTran.Commit();
}
catch(Exception e)
{
mqTran.Abort();
//Do some processing if fail to send
}

It's not going to throw an exception for failure to deliver, only for failure to place on the queue. One of the points of message queueing is that the messages are durable so that you can take appropriate measures if delivery fails. This means you need to program another process to read the dead letter queue. The image below is taken from MSDN.
Because the entire process is asynchronous, your code flow is not going to be exception-driven the way your code block would like. Your transaction is simply the "sending transaction" in this workflow.
Recommendation: Check your message queue to find the messages, either in the outgoing queue or the transactional dead-letter queue.

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Kafka producer send blocks indefinitely when kafka servers are down

I'm using Kafka 0.11.0.0. I have a test program that publishes to a Kafka topic; if the zookeeper and Kafka servers are down (which is normal in my development environment; I bring them up as needed) then the call to KafkaProducer<>.send() hangs indefinitely.
I either need to have send() return, preferably indicating the error; or I need a way to check whether the servers are up or down. Basically, I want my test tool to be able tell me, "Hey, dummy, start up Kafka!" instead of hanging.
Is there a way for my producer task to determine whether the servers are up or down?
I'm calling the send() like this:
kafkaProducer.send(new ProducerRecord<>(KAFKA_TOPIC, KAFKA_KEY,
message), (rm, ex) -> {
System.out.println("**** " + rm + "\n**** " +ex);
});
I have linger.ms = 1; I've tried retries=0, 1, and 2, and send() still blocks. I've never seen the callback called.
Older messages suggest setting metadata.fetch.timeout.ms to a small value, but that's gone in 0.11. Others suggest calling command line utilities to see if the servers are OK...but the referenced utilities also seem to be gone.
What's the graceful way to get this done?
We can send messages to broker in three ways :
Fire-and-forget :
We send a message to the server and don’t really care if it arrives successfully or not. Most of the time, it will arrive successfully, since Kafka is highly available and the producer will retry sending messages automatically. However, some messages will get lost using this method.
Asynchronous send
We call the send() method with a callback function, which gets triggered when it receives a response from the Kafka broker.
Synchronous send
We send a message, the send() method returns a Future object, and we use get() to wait on the future and see if the send() was successful or not.
The simplest way to send a message synchronously is as follows:
ProducerRecord<String, String> record =
new ProducerRecord<>(KAFKA_TOPIC, KEY, message);
try {
producer.send(record).get();
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
Here, we are using Future.get() to wait for a reply from Kafka. This method will throw an exception if the record is not sent successfully to Kafka. If there were no errors, we will get a RecordMetadata object that we can use to retrieve the offset the message was written to.
hope this helps.
That is strange. It should return with an error saying either "Failed to update metadata" or "Expiring x number of records".
Check request.timeout.ms and max.block.ms setting for your producer. By default request.timeout.ms is 60 seconds long

Same message to several services

I have one MSMQ queue which is listened by five windows services. I used BeginPeek and PeekCompleted event for this purpose. My problem is among five services, only one service is the right recipient of the message. All four just read message, but no action is performed. This can only be identified when we read MQ message.
Now, I added a code in my services to check, if the criteria matches and the message is being processed by the right service, then I am using Receive to dequeue the message from MSMQ. Is that a good idea?
Secondly, If the message doesnot satisfy condition and all five services just peeked it, but not received, the message still lies in queue. I understand. But the same message is being processed infinite times, as the message was never removed.
private void queue_PeekCompleted(object sender, PeekCompletedEventArgs e)
{
MessageQueue queue = (MessageQueue)sender;
//Message msg = queue.EndPeek(e.AsyncResult);
Message msg = e.Message;
//Read message and check if the criteria matches
if(CriteriaMatches)
{
queue.ReceiveById(e.Message.Id);
}
queue.EndPeek(e.AsyncResult);
queue.BeginPeek();
}
Appreciate your help.
Thanks,
Fayaz
Set the messages to expire after a set (short) period. They will then move to the dead letter queue where you can have another service waiting for arrivals. This service could then raise an alert, for example, as soon as a message arrives.

NServiceBus: What causes "Failed raising 'finished message processing' event."?

Occasionally when NServiceBus picks up a message, it fails with the exception below. This causes NServiceBus to retry (up to it's configured retry limit). Sometimes one of the retries result in the message being handled successfully, but it's common for all retries to fail with the same exception. In this case, the message is routed to the error queue as expected when all retries fail.
My question is... what would cause this exception in the first place? It doesn't appear related to my message handler code, as my code doesn't appear in the stack trace.
NServiceBus version: 2.6.0.1504
OS: Windows Server 2003
Handler code is targeting .NET 3.5 or earlier
Here is the full exception message and stack trace:
NServiceBus.Unicast.Transport.Msmq.MsmqTransport [(null)] - Failed raising 'finished message processing' event. System.Messaging.MessageQueueException: Cannot enlist the transaction.
at System.Messaging.MessageQueue.SendInternal(Object obj, MessageQueueTransaction internalTransaction, MessageQueueTransactionType transactionType)
at System.Messaging.MessageQueue.Send(Object obj, MessageQueueTransactionType transactionType)
at NServiceBus.Unicast.Transport.Msmq.MsmqTransport.SendMsmqMessage(Message m, String destination)
at NServiceBus.Unicast.Transport.Msmq.MsmqTransport.Send(TransportMessage m, String destination)
at NServiceBus.Unicast.UnicastBus.SendReadyMessage(Boolean startup)
at NServiceBus.Unicast.UnicastBus.TransportFinishedMessageProcessing(Object sender, EventArgs e)
at NServiceBus.Unicast.Transport.Msmq.MsmqTransport.OnFinishedMessageProcessing()
I see the method NServiceBus.Unicast.UnicastBus.SendReadyMessage(Boolean startup) in your stack trace.
This tells me that your endpoint is connected to a Distributor. After all your message handlers have completed, an endpoint connected to a distributor will send the ReadyMessage back to the Distributor's control queue to say "I'm done with that work. Please send more!"
This is supposed to happen within the same transaction as the rest of your work, but apparently the MSMQ send is having trouble enlisting in that transaction. This could point to a problem with DTC. It would be interesting to know what else you have going on in your message handlers for that message type that also enlist in the transaction. You aren't manually committing or rolling anything back are you?

Catch MailException

Is it possible to catch a MailException when sending an e-mail?
I want to catch it in scenarios like mail server is down, malformed e-mail address, etc.
I see the MailException in the console but I cannot catch it when I call Mailer.send(). The Mailer.send() sends the e-mail asynchronously and thus I cannot catch the exception. How can I wait for the result suspending the HTTP request?
Another question: Does the Mailer.sendAndWait() suspend the request?
First the mail() method might throw a MailException if sending mail fails.
The send methods return a Future of type Boolean, if you call get() on the future you will get the result of the mail sending, mind that this call is blocking and will wait for the mail sending to finish.
This is the same thing as using sendAndWait()
This get can also throw an ExecutionException but I don't have the impression this is used by the play mailer. Instead you get back false from the future and the exception is logged.
SendAndWait() does not suspend the request as far as I can see in the sources
more info here:
http://download.oracle.com/javase/1,5.0/docs/api/java/util/concurrent/Future.html
https://github.com/playframework/play/blob/master/framework/src/play/mvc/Mailer.java
https://github.com/playframework/play/blob/master/framework/src/play/libs/Mail.java

Remove messages from MSMQ

I have program which reads MSMQ using GetAllMessages but it does not remove messages from Queue so I have following code; which keep getting same messages. I do not want to process same message again and again. How can I make sure that MSMQ deletes those already received messages or atleast I don't receive it ?
while()
{
Messages[] receivedMessage = queue.GetAllMessages()
foreach(Message msg in receivedMessage)
{
... Processing
}
}
GetAllMessages() gives you a copy of the messages in the queue, but doesn't delete them.
Use any of the Receive methods to receive and remove the messages from a queue