sqs.create_queue fails for ".fifo" suffix in queue name

[kamikaze]

Describe the bug

SQS

response = await sqs.create_queue(QueueName='messages.fifo')

results in:

botocore.exceptions.ClientError: An error occurred (InvalidParameterValue) when calling the CreateQueue operation: Can only include alphanumeric characters, hyphens, or underscores. 1 to 80 in length

while in docs there is:

PARAMETERS:
QueueName (string) –

[REQUIRED]

The name of the new queue. The following limits apply to this name:

A queue name can have up to 80 characters.

Valid values: alphanumeric characters, hyphens ( -), and underscores ( _).

A FIFO queue name must end with the **.fifo suffix**.

Expected Behavior

botocore.exceptions.ClientError: An error occurred (InvalidParameterValue) when calling the CreateQueue operation: Can only include alphanumeric characters, hyphens, or underscores. 1 to 80 in length

Current Behavior

Queue created

Reproduction Steps

response = await sqs.create_queue(QueueName=queue_name)

Possible Solution

No response

Additional Information/Context

No response

SDK version used

botocore==1.31.17

Environment details (OS name and version, etc.)

Linux

[RyanFitzSimmonsAK]

Hi @kamikaze, thanks for reaching out. You're getting this error because you're trying to create a standard queue with a .fifo suffix. To create a FIFO queue, you must specify the FifoQueue to be true in the attributes. Here's an example :

import boto3

sqs = boto3.client("sqs")

response = sqs.create_queue(
    QueueName='myTestQueue.fifo',
    Attributes={
        'FifoQueue': 'true'
    }
)

Hope that helps!

[kamikaze]

Hi @kamikaze, thanks for reaching out. You're getting this error because you're trying to create a standard queue with a .fifo suffix. To create a FIFO queue, you must specify the FifoQueue to be true in the attributes. Here's an example :

import boto3

sqs = boto3.client("sqs")

response = sqs.create_queue(
    QueueName='myTestQueue.fifo',
    Attributes={
        'FifoQueue': 'true'
    }
)

Hope that helps!

thanks. but what is the point to name it with a suffix then? two conditions instead of one

[RyanFitzSimmonsAK]

It's likely so that users have an easier way to determine the type of a queue, without needing to use GetQueueAttributes.

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