The Get Queue Metadata operation retrieves user-defined metadata and queue properties on the specified queue. Metadata is associated with the queue as name-values pairs.
The Get Queue Metadata request may be constructed as follows:
GET/HEAD
http://myaccount.queue.core.windows.net/myqueue?comp=metadata
HTTP/1.1
When making a request against development storage, specify the local hostname and Queue service port as 127.0.0.1:10001, followed by the development storage account name:
127.0.0.1:10001
http://127.0.0.1:10001/devstoreaccount1/myqueue?comp=metadata
For more information, see About Development Storage.
None.
The following table describes required and optional request headers.
Authorization
Required. Specifies the authentication scheme, account name, and signature. For more information, see Authentication Schemes.
Date or x-ms-date
Required. Specifies the Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) for the request. For more information, see Authentication Schemes.
x-ms-version
Optional. Specifies the version of the operation to use for this request. For more information, see Storage Service Versioning.
The response includes an HTTP status code and a set of response headers.
A successful operation returns status code 200 (OK).
For information about status codes, see Status and Error Codes.
The response for this operation includes the following headers. The response may also include additional standard HTTP headers. All standard headers conform to the HTTP/1.1 protocol specification.
x-ms-approximate-message-count:int-value
The approximate number of messages in the queue.
x-ms-meta-name:string-value
A user-defined name/value pair.
x-ms-request-id
This header uniquely identifies the request that was made and can be used for troubleshooting the request. For more information, see Troubleshooting API Operations.
Indicates the version of the Queue service used to execute the request. This header is returned for requests made against version 2009-09-19 and later.
Response Status: HTTP/1.1 200 OK Response Headers: Transfer-Encoding: chunked x-ms-approximate-messages-count: 0 Date: Fri, 09 Oct 2009 01:27:38 GMT Server: Windows-Azure-Queue/1.0 Microsoft-HTTPAPI/2.0
Only the account owner may call this operation.