Weather Component
Available as of Camel 2.12
The weather: component is used for polling weather information from Open Weather Map - a site that provides free global weather and forecast information. The information is returned as a json String object.
Camel will poll for updates to the current weather and forecasts once per hour by default. It can also be used to query the weather api based on the parameters defined on the endpoint which is used as producer.
Maven users will need to add the following dependency to their pom.xml
for this component:
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h2. Weather Component The *weather:* component is used for polling weather information from [Open Weather Map|http://openweathermap.org] - a site that provides free global weather and forecast information. The information is returned as a json String object. Camel will poll for updates to the current weather and forecasts once per hour by default. *Note:* The component currently only supports consuming weather - though we will continue to research ways to [influence the weather reliably|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainmaking_(ritual)] Maven users will need to add the following dependency to their {{pom.xml}} for this component: {code:xml} <dependency> <groupId>org.apache.camel</groupId> <artifactId>camel-weather</artifactId> <version>x.x.x</version> <!-- use the same version as your Camel core version --> </dependency> {code} h3. URI format {code} |
URI format
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weather://<unused name>[?options]
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h3. Options
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| {{location}} | {{null}} | If null Camel will try and determine your current location using the geolocation of your ip address, else specify the city,country. For well known city names, Open Weather Map will determine the best fit, but multiple results may be returned. Hence specifying and country as well will return more accurate data |
| {{period}} | {{null}} | If null, the current weather will be returned, else use values of 5, 7, 14 days. Only the numeric value for the forecast period is actually parsed, so spelling, capitalisation of the time period is up to you (its ignored) |
| {{mode}} | {{JSON}} | The output format of the weather data. The possible values are {{HTML}}, {{JSON}} or {{XML}} |
| {{units}} | {{METRIC}} | The units for temperature measurement. The possible values are {{IMPERIAL}} or {{METRIC}} |
| {{consumer.delay}} | {{3600000}} | Delay in millis between each poll (default is 1 hour) |
| {{consumer.initialDelay}} | {{1000}} | Millis before polling starts. |
| {{consumer.userFixedDelay}} | {{false}} | If {{true}}, use fixed delay between polls, otherwise fixed rate is used. See [ScheduledExecutorService|http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/util/concurrent/ScheduledExecutorService.html] in JDK for details. |
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You can append query options to the URI in the following format, {{ |
REMARK
Since the 9th of October, an Api Key is required to access the openweather service. This key is passed as parameter to the URI definition of the weather endpoint using the appid param !
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You can append query options to the URI in the following format, ?option=value&option=value&...
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Exchange data format
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Samples
In this sample we find the 7 day weather forecast for Madrid, Spain:
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h3. Message Headers {div:class=confluenceTableSmall} || Header || Description || | {{CamelWeatherQuery}} | The original query URL sent to the Open Weather Map site | {div} h3. Samples In this sample we find the 7 day weather forecast for Madrid, Spain: {code} from("weather:foo?location=Madrid,Spain&period=7 days&appid=APIKEY").to("jms:queue:weather"); {code} |
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} from("weather:foo?appid=APIKEY").to("jms:queue:weather"); |
And to find the weather using the producer we do:
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from("direct:start") .to("weather:foo?location=Madrid,Spain&appid=APIKEY"); |
And we can send in a message with a header to get the weather for any location as shown:
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String json = template.requestBodyAndHeader("direct:start", "", "CamelWeatherLocation", "Paris,France&appid=APIKEY", String.class); |
And to get the weather at the current location, then:
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String json = template.requestBodyAndHeader("direct:start", "", "CamelWeatherLocation", "current&appid=APIKEY", String.class); {code} |