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Cache Component
Available as of Camel 2.1
The cache component enables you to perform caching operations using EHCache as the Cache Implementation. The cache itself is created on demand or if a cache of that name already exists then it is simply utilized with its original settings.
This component supports producer and event based consumer endpoints.
The Cache consumer is an event based consumer and can be used to listen and respond to specific cache activities. If you need to perform selections from a pre-existing cache, used the processors defined for the cache component.
Maven users will need to add the following dependency to their pom.xml for this component:
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.camel</groupId>
<artifactId>camel-cache</artifactId>
<version>x.x.x</version>
<!-- use the same version as your Camel core version -->
</dependency>
URI format
cache://cacheName[?options]
You can append query options to the URI in the following format, ?option=value&option=#beanRef&...
Options
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The numer of elements that may be stored in the defined cache |
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The number of elements that may be stored in the defined cache. Options include
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Specifies whether cache may overflow to disk |
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Sets whether elements are eternal. If eternal, timeouts are ignored and the |
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The maximum time between creation time and when an element expires. |
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The maximum amount of time between accesses before an element expires |
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Whether the disk store persists between restarts of the Virtual Machine. |
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The number of seconds between runs of the disk expiry thread. The default value |
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Camel 2.8: If you want to use a custom factory which instantiates and creates the EHCache |
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Camel 2.8: Sets a list of EHCache |
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Camel 2.8: Sets a list of |
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Camel 2.10: To configure using a cache key by default. If a key is provided in the message header, then the key from the header takes precedence. |
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Camel 2.10: To configure using an cache operation by default. If an operation in the message header, then the operation from the header takes precedence. |
Sending/Receiving Messages to/from the cache
Message Headers up to Camel 2.7
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Header |
Description |
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The operation to be performed on the cache. The valid options are
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The cache key used to store the Message in the cache. The cache key is optional if the CACHE_OPERATION is DELETEALL |
Message Headers Camel 2.8+
Header changes in Camel 2.8
The header names and supported values have changed to be prefixed with 'CamelCache' and use mixed case. This makes them easier to identify and keep separate from other headers. The CacheConstants variable names remain unchanged, just their values have been changed. Also, these headers are now being removed from the exchange after the cache operation is performed.
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Header |
Description |
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The operation to be performed on the cache. The valid options are
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The cache key used to store the Message in the cache. The cache key is optional if the CamelCacheOperation is CamelCacheDeleteAll |
Cache Producer
Sending data to the cache involves the ability to direct payloads in exchanges to be stored in a pre-existing or created-on-demand cache. The mechanics of doing this involve
- setting the Message Exchange Headers shown above.
- ensuring that the Message Exchange Body contains the message directed to the cache
Cache Consumer
Receiving data from the cache involves the ability of the CacheConsumer to listen on a pre-existing or created-on-demand Cache using an event Listener and receive automatic notifications when any cache activity take place (i.e CamelCacheGet/CamelCacheUpdate/CamelCacheDelete/CamelCacheDeleteAll). Upon such an activity taking place
- an exchange containing Message Exchange Headers and a Message Exchange Body containing the just added/updated payload is placed and sent.
- in case of a CamelCacheDeleteAll operation, the Message Exchange Header CamelCacheKey and the Message Exchange Body are not populated.
Cache Processors
There are a set of nice processors with the ability to perform cache lookups and selectively replace payload content at the
- body
- token
- xpath level
Cache Usage Samples
Example 1: Configuring the cache
from("cache://MyApplicationCache" +
"?maxElementsInMemory=1000" +
"&memoryStoreEvictionPolicy=" +
"MemoryStoreEvictionPolicy.LFU" +
"&overflowToDisk=true" +
"&eternal=true" +
"&timeToLiveSeconds=300" +
"&timeToIdleSeconds=true" +
"&diskPersistent=true" +
"&diskExpiryThreadIntervalSeconds=300")
Example 2: Adding keys to the cache
RouteBuilder builder = new RouteBuilder() {
public void configure() {
from("direct:start")
.setHeader(CacheConstants.CACHE_OPERATION, constant(CacheConstants.CACHE_OPERATION_ADD))
.setHeader(CacheConstants.CACHE_KEY, constant("Ralph_Waldo_Emerson"))
.to("cache://TestCache1")
}
};
Example 2: Updating existing keys in a cache
RouteBuilder builder = new RouteBuilder() {
public void configure() {
from("direct:start")
.setHeader(CacheConstants.CACHE_OPERATION, constant(CacheConstants.CACHE_OPERATION_UPDATE))
.setHeader(CacheConstants.CACHE_KEY, constant("Ralph_Waldo_Emerson"))
.to("cache://TestCache1")
}
};
Example 3: Deleting existing keys in a cache
RouteBuilder builder = new RouteBuilder() {
public void configure() {
from("direct:start")
.setHeader(CacheConstants.CACHE_OPERATION, constant(CacheConstants.CACHE_DELETE))
.setHeader(CacheConstants.CACHE_KEY", constant("Ralph_Waldo_Emerson"))
.to("cache://TestCache1")
}
};
Example 4: Deleting all existing keys in a cache
RouteBuilder builder = new RouteBuilder() {
public void configure() {
from("direct:start")
.setHeader(CacheConstants.CACHE_OPERATION, constant(CacheConstants.CACHE_DELETEALL))
.to("cache://TestCache1");
}
};
Example 5: Notifying any changes registering in a Cache to Processors and other Producers
RouteBuilder builder = new RouteBuilder() {
public void configure() {
from("cache://TestCache1")
.process(new Processor() {
public void process(Exchange exchange)
throws Exception {
String operation = (String) exchange.getIn().getHeader(CacheConstants.CACHE_OPERATION);
String key = (String) exchange.getIn().getHeader(CacheConstants.CACHE_KEY);
Object body = exchange.getIn().getBody();
// Do something
}
})
}
};
Example 6: Using Processors to selectively replace payload with cache values
RouteBuilder builder = new RouteBuilder() {
public void configure() {
//Message Body Replacer
from("cache://TestCache1")
.filter(header(CacheConstants.CACHE_KEY).isEqualTo("greeting"))
.process(new CacheBasedMessageBodyReplacer("cache://TestCache1","farewell"))
.to("direct:next");
//Message Token replacer
from("cache://TestCache1")
.filter(header(CacheConstants.CACHE_KEY).isEqualTo("quote"))
.process(new CacheBasedTokenReplacer("cache://TestCache1","novel","#novel#"))
.process(new CacheBasedTokenReplacer("cache://TestCache1","author","#author#"))
.process(new CacheBasedTokenReplacer("cache://TestCache1","number","#number#"))
.to("direct:next");
//Message XPath replacer
from("cache://TestCache1").
.filter(header(CacheConstants.CACHE_KEY).isEqualTo("XML_FRAGMENT"))
.process(new CacheBasedXPathReplacer("cache://TestCache1","book1","/books/book1"))
.process (new CacheBasedXPathReplacer("cache://TestCache1","book2","/books/book2"))
.to("direct:next");
}
};
Example 7: Getting an entry from the Cache
from("direct:start")
// Prepare headers
.setHeader(CacheConstants.CACHE_OPERATION, constant(CacheConstants.CACHE_OPERATION_GET))
.setHeader(CacheConstants.CACHE_KEY, constant("Ralph_Waldo_Emerson")).
.to("cache://TestCache1").
// Check if entry was not found
.choice().when(header(CacheConstants.CACHE_ELEMENT_WAS_FOUND).isNull()).
// If not found, get the payload and put it to cache
.to("cxf:bean:someHeavyweightOperation").
.setHeader(CacheConstants.CACHE_OPERATION, constant(CacheConstants.CACHE_OPERATION_ADD))
.setHeader(CacheConstants.CACHE_KEY, constant("Ralph_Waldo_Emerson"))
.to("cache://TestCache1")
.end()
.to("direct:nextPhase");
Example 8: Checking for an entry in the Cache
Note: CHECK command tests existence of the entry in the cache but doesn't place message to the body.
from("direct:start")
// Prepare headers
.setHeader(CacheConstants.CACHE_OPERATION, constant(CacheConstants.CACHE_OPERATION_CHECK))
.setHeader(CacheConstants.CACHE_KEY, constant("Ralph_Waldo_Emerson")).
.to("cache://TestCache1").
// Check if entry was not found
.choice().when(header(CacheConstants.CACHE_ELEMENT_WAS_FOUND).isNull()).
// If not found, get the payload and put it to cache
.to("cxf:bean:someHeavyweightOperation").
.setHeader(CacheConstants.CACHE_OPERATION, constant(CacheConstants.CACHE_OPERATION_ADD))
.setHeader(CacheConstants.CACHE_KEY, constant("Ralph_Waldo_Emerson"))
.to("cache://TestCache1")
.end();
Management of EHCache
EHCache has its own statistics and management from JMX.
Here's a snippet on how to expose them via JMX in a Spring application context:
<bean id="ehCacheManagementService" class="net.sf.ehcache.management.ManagementService" init-method="init" lazy-init="false">
<constructor-arg>
<bean class="net.sf.ehcache.CacheManager" factory-method="getInstance"/>
</constructor-arg>
<constructor-arg>
<bean class="org.springframework.jmx.support.JmxUtils" factory-method="locateMBeanServer"/>
</constructor-arg>
<constructor-arg value="true"/>
<constructor-arg value="true"/>
<constructor-arg value="true"/>
<constructor-arg value="true"/>
</bean>
Of course you can do the same thing in straight Java:
ManagementService.registerMBeans(CacheManager.getInstance(), mbeanServer, true, true, true, true);
You can get cache hits, misses, in-memory hits, disk hits, size stats this way. You can also change CacheConfiguration parameters on the fly.
Cache replication Camel 2.8+
Camel Cache component is able to distribute cache across server nodes using several different replication mechanisms like: RMI, JGroups, JMS and Cache Server.
There are two different ways To make it work:
1. you need to configure ehcache.xml manually
OR
2. you have to take care about these three options:
- cacheManagerFactory
- eventListenerRegistry
- cacheLoaderRegistry
Configuring Camel Cache replication using 1st option- the ehcache.xml file is a bit hard work as you have to configure all caches separately. So in a situation when the all names of caches are not know, using ehcache.xml is not a good idea.
The second option is much better when you want to use many different caches as you do not need to define options per cache. This is because replication options are set per CacheManager and per CacheEndpoint. Also it is the only way when cache names are not know at the development phase.
It might be useful to read EHCache manual to get better understanding of Camel Cache replication mechanism.
Example: JMS cache replication
JMS replication is the most powerful and secured way. Used altogether with Camel Cache replication options is also the most easy way.
This example is available on separated page.