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h2. Kestrel Component

The Kestrel component allows messages to be sent to a [Kestrel|https://github.com/robey/kestrel] queue, or messages to be consumed from a Kestrel queue using the [Spymemcached|http://code.google.com/p/spymemcached/] client.

h3. URI format

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kestrel://[addresslist/]queuename[?options]
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Where *queuename* is a Kestrel queue name.  The *addresslist* part of the URI may include one or more {{host:port}} pairs.  For example, to connect to the queue {{foo}} on {{kserver01:22133}}, use:

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kestrel://kserver01:22133/foo
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If the *addresslist* is omitted, {{localhost:22133}} is assumed, i.e.:

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kestrel://foo
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Likewise, if a port is omitted from a {{host:port}} pair in *addresslist*, the default port 22133 is assumed, i.e.:

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kestrel://kserver01/foo
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Here is an example of a Kestrel endpoint URI used for producing to a clustered queue:

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kestrel://kserver01:22133,kserver02:22133,kserver03:22133/massive
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Here is an example of a Kestrel endpoint URI used for consuming concurrently from a queue:

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kestrel://kserver03:22133/massive?concurrentConsumers=8&waitTimeMs=500
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h3. Options

You can configure properties on each Kestrel endpoint individually by specifying them in the {{?parameters}} portion of the endpoint URI.  Any {{?parameters}} that are omitted will default to what is configured on the KestrelComponent's base KestrelConfiguration.  The following properties may be set on KestrelConfiguration and/or each individual endpoint:

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|| Option || Default Value || Description ||
| {{concurrentConsumers}} | {{1}} | Specifies the number of concurrent consumer threads. |
| {{waitTimeMs}} | {{100}} | Specifies the {{/t=...}} wait time passed to Kestrel on GET requests. |
| {{concurrentConsumers}} | {{1}} | Specifies the number of concurrent consumers. |
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*NOTE:* If *waitTimeMs* is set to zero or a negative value, the {{//t=...}} specifier does *not* get passed to the server on GET requests.  In order to prevent "tight looping" in the polling phase, this component will do a {{Thread.sleep(100)}} whenever nothing is returned from the GET request (only when nothing is returned).

h3. Configuring the Kestrel component using Spring XML

The simplest form of explicit configuration is as follows:

{code:xml}
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
       xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
       xsi:schemaLocation="
       http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-2.0.xsd
       http://camel.apache.org/schema/spring http://camel.apache.org/schema/spring/camel-spring.xsd">

  <bean id="kestrel" class="org.apache.camel.component.kestrel.KestrelComponent"/>

  <camelContext xmlns="http://camel.apache.org/schema/spring">
  </camelContext>

  <bean id="kestrel" class="org.apache.camel.component.kestrel.KestrelComponent"/>

</beans>
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That will enable the Kestrel component with all default settings, i.e. it will use {{localhost:22133}}, 100ms wait time, and 1a single non-concurrent consumer by default.

To use specific options in the base configuration (which supplies configuration to endpoints whose {{?properties}} are not specified), you can set up a KestrelConfiguration POJO as follows:

{code:xml}
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
       xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
       xsi:schemaLocation="
       http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-2.0.xsd
       http://camel.apache.org/schema/spring http://camel.apache.org/schema/spring/camel-spring.xsd">

  <camelContext xmlns="http://camel.apache.org/schema/spring">
  </camelContext>

  <bean id="kestrelConfiguration" class="org.apache.camel.component.kestrel.KestrelConfiguration">
    <property name="addresses" value="kestrel01:22133"/>
    <property name="waitTimeMs" value="100"/>
    <property name="concurrentConsumers" value="1"/>
  </bean>

  <bean id="kestrel" class="org.apache.camel.component.kestrel.KestrelComponent">
    <property name="configuration" ref="kestrelConfiguration"/>
  </bean>

  <camelContext xmlns="http://camel.apache.org/schema/spring">
  </camelContext>

</beans>
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h3. Getting Component JAR

You will need these dependencies
- {{spymemcached}} 2.5+

h4. spymemcached
You *must* have the {{spymemcached}} jar on your classpath.  Here is a snippet you can use in your pom.xml:
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<dependency>
  <groupId>spy</groupId>
  <artifactId>memcached</artifactId>
  <version>2.5</version>
</dependency>
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