Is it possible to send data with ServiceBusMessage and to receive it with BrokeredMessage?

Question

More precisely to send the data using Azure.Messaging.ServiceBus.ServiceBusMessage and to receive it with Microsoft.ServiceBus.Messaging.BrokeredMessage

I develop a brand new .NET Core 8.0 component and our queue subscribers are on .NET Fx 4.8. In the new component I would like to use the currently supported Azure.Messaging.ServiceBus to send messages. Unfortunately I could not find any info on how to send data to listeners that use WindowsAzure.ServiceBus.

For sending data through the queue from Microsoft.Azure.ServiceBus -> WindowsAzure.ServiceBus I already found this, thanks very much! https://github.com/Azure/azure-service-bus-dotnet/issues/239#issuecomment-320820562

Answer 1

Yes, this is possible and is detailed in the Service Bus Interop sample.

To send from Azure.Messaging.ServiceBus and receive from WindowsAzure.ServiceBus, you would do:

ServiceBusSender sender = client.CreateSender(queueName);

// When constructing the `DataContractSerializer`, We pass 
// in the type for the model, which can be a strongly typed 
// model or some pre-serialized data.

// If you use a strongly typed model here, the model properties
// will be serialized into XML. Since JSON is more commonly used,
// we will use it in our example, and specify the type as string, 
// since we will provide a JSON string.

var serializer = new DataContractSerializer(typeof(string));
using var stream = new MemoryStream();
XmlDictionaryWriter writer = XmlDictionaryWriter.CreateBinaryWriter(stream);

// serialize an instance of our type into a JSON string
string json = JsonSerializer.Serialize(new TestModel 
{
    A = "Hello world", 
    B = 5, 
    C = true
});

// serialize our JSON string into the XML envelope using 
// the DataContractSerializer
serializer.WriteObject(writer, json);
writer.Flush();

// construct the ServiceBusMessage using the DataContract serialized JSON
var message = new ServiceBusMessage(stream.ToArray());

await sender.SendMessageAsync(message);

(verbatim from the linked sample, with minor formatting changes)