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[This article was contributed by the AppFabric team.]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The new Service Bus Durable Messaging features<\/a> introduced with the May 2011 CTP are really cool, and what’s even better than a slew of new messaging features added to the AppFabric is the fact that many of them are accessible from clients on any platform using HTTP. In this post, I’m going to introduce you to using the Service Bus REST endpoint for Messaging; some of it might remind you of the October CTP<\/a>, we’ll be using Queues (so taking a look at David’s post<\/a> from Tuesday could be a good idea), and getting to grips with How Access Control Tokens work over HTTP<\/a> would be a great primer, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Preface to the RESTful Service Bus<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Typically, users of the Service Bus download and install the AppFabric SDK, add a reference to Microsoft.ServiceBus<\/em> and\/or Microsoft.ServiceBus.Messaging<\/em> and use the ServiceBusNamespaceClient<\/a> to perform management operations (creating, enumerating and deleting any queues, topics or subscriptions) or the MessagingFactory<\/a> to Send and Receive messages. Details like addressing and security are taken care of by the SDK: there’s no need to get or renew Access Control Service tokens and no need to interact directly with the service – you just use the SDK. With the REST endpoint, you get a little closer to the metal which – in this geek’s humble opinion – can be at least a little bit more fun!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wherever possible, you’ll want to use our SDK. It sheilds you from some of the underlying complexity of the service, may help to protect you as features change in future and – frankly – it’s just a lot easier. That said, there are plenty of times when you won’t be able to use the SDK, for example: when working on a non desktop .Net Framework version (like Windows Phone 7 or Silverlight); when working on non-microsoft platforms (like iOS, Android, Java, PHP or Ruby); and when working with older versions of the .Net Framework.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For convenience and consistency, the code samples in this post are shown in C# – that’s not because you’d be writing in C# when using the Service Bus from iOS, PHP or Ruby, of course! I want to focus today on showing some of the basics of using our REST API from a language that many of you will be familiar with. That said, you can look forward to future posts in a wider variety of languages showing the awesome things you can do with Service Bus across platforms and devices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are 5 things I’ll be covering in this post to get you started – please leave your feedback on areas you’d like have more detail, examples and guidance either in the comments (below) or the AppFabric CTP Forums<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. Get a security token from the Access Control Service<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Create a Queue in your service namespace<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Send a Message to the Queue<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. Receive the Message from the Queue<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  5. Delete the Queue<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    We’re going to be busy – so make sure you have an account set up at the AppFabric Labs Portal<\/a> and Lets Get Started!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Getting and Using a Security Token<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

    Last Week, I provided some guidance on Getting and Understanding an Access Control Service Token via HTTP<\/a>, so I won’t provide a huge level of detail today on the topic. Suffice to say, the service bus requires that you present a WRAP access token in the HTTP Authorization Header, like this:<\/p>\n\n\n

    \nAuthorization: WRAP access_token=\"\"\n<\/pre><\/div>\n\n\n
    Firstly, we’ll get a token from ACS using the Issuer Name and Key which you can look up in the AppFabric Portal<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n
    \nstring serviceNamespace = \"contoso\";  string issuerName  = \"owner\";  string issuerPassword = \"aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa=\";    string acsBaseAddress = \"https:\/\/\" + serviceNamespace + \"-sb.accesscontrol.appfabriclabs.com\/\";    \/\/ Note that the scheme is Http  string relyingPartyAddress = \"https:\/\/\" + serviceNamespace + \".servicebus.appfabriclabs.com\/\";    \/\/ Create the body of the Post Request, formatted as a HTTP Form  string postData = \"wrap_scope=\" + Uri.EscapeDataString(relyingPartyAddress) +                    \"&wrap_name=\" + Uri.EscapeDataString(issuerName) +                    \"&wrap_password=\" + Uri.EscapeDataString(issuerPassword);    string authorizationToken;  using (WebClient acsWebClient = new WebClient())  {      \/\/ The response contains the access token and its expiry time formatted as an HTTP       \/\/ Form like: wrap_access_token=&wrap_expiry_time=2000      string response = acsWebClient.UploadString(acsAddress, \"POST\", postData);        string[] tokenVariables = response.Split('&');      string[] tokenVariable = tokenVariables[0].Split('=');      authorizationToken = Uri.UnescapeDataString(tokenVariable[1]);  }\n<\/pre><\/div>\n\n\n
    The access token contains its expiry time (currently defaulting to 20 minutes), and you can keep using the same token over-and-over again until it expires. However, once the expiry time elapses you’ll need to request a fresh token from the Access Control Service. Now we’ll go ahead and create a WebClient to use for our calls to the service bus; we initialize it by correctly setting the Authorization header – you need this header to be present in any call you make to the service bus.<\/p>\n\n\n
    \nWebClient webClient = new WebClient();  webClient.Headers[\"Authorization\"] = \"WRAP access_token=\"\" + authorizationToken + \"\"\";\n<\/pre><\/div>\n\n\n
    Creating a new Queue<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
    In the October CTP, we introduced the idea of Namespace Management: an explicit, RESTful interface to Create, Enumerate and Delete durable Service Bus entities (in the May CTP these are: Queues, Topics and Subscriptions). That concept carries through to the May CTP with just a couple of changes. You still use the established RESTful pattern (HTTP GET to retrieve\/enumerate; HTTP PUT to create; HTTP DELETE to remove) to interact with Atom Feeds and Entries; we’ve simplified things by combining the Management Namespace (formerly https:\/\/<your-namespace>-mgmt.servicebus.appfabriclabs.com\/) with the Service Namespace (still https:\/\/<your-namespace>.servicebus.appfabriclabs.com) though.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
    A queue can exist anywhere in your service namespace – you create it by putting the description of the queue to a ‘vacant’ uri in your namespace. We’ll need to specify the correct content type for the request (Content-Type: application\/atom+xml<\/strong>) then issue an HTTP PUT<\/strong> to the Uri of the new queue (using the secure, https scheme) containing the Atom Entry which defines it:<\/p>\n\n\n
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