MQSeries.net :: View topic - Message Properties in MQ v7 and perl MQSeries API

hildobiersma

I am the maintainer of the perl MQSeries API and am looking to add support for MQ v7 message properties to the API in the future 1.30 release of the module.

I've looked at the C API for Message Properties, but I have little idea of how people are using, or want to use, Message Properties for their applications. Feedback would be welcome.

Some of the questions I have are:
- Do you mostly use message properties that are compatible with JMS (i.e. single-qualifier message properties), or also longer properties ("com.MyCompany.MyApplication.MyProperty")?
- Do you care strongly about the data types associated with message properties, or do you mostly use text strings?
- It is possible to have a single property name with multiple values. Do people actually use this?
- The raw API supports getting/setting/deleting properties, but also a cursor that allows iteration across properties with update before/after/under cursor. Does anyone actually use that, apart from iterating across all properties?