Using Expression Languages
You can also use any of the Languages supported in Camel to bind expressions to method parameters when using bean integration. For example you can use any of these annotations:
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Inject a Bean expression |
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Inject a BeanShell expression |
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Inject a Constant expression |
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Inject an EL expression |
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Inject a Groovy expression |
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Inject a Header expression |
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Inject a JavaScript expression |
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Inject an OGNL expression |
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Inject a PHP expression |
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Inject a Python expression |
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Inject a Ruby expression |
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Inject an Simple expression |
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Inject an XPath expression |
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Inject an XQuery expression |
For example:
public class Foo { @MessageDriven(uri = "activemq:my.queue") public void doSomething(@XPath("/foo/bar/text()") String correlationID, @Body String body) { // process the inbound message here } }
Advanced example using @Bean
And an example of using the the @Bean binding annotation, where you can use a POJO where you can do whatever java code you like:
public class Foo { @MessageDriven(uri = "activemq:my.queue") public void doSomething(@Bean("myCorrelationIdGenerator") String correlationID, @Body String body) { // process the inbound message here } }
And then we can have a spring bean with the id myCorrelationIdGenerator where we can compute the id.
public class MyIdGenerator { private UserManager userManager; public String generate(@Header(name = "user") String user, @Body String payload) throws Exception { User user = userManager.lookupUser(user); String userId = user.getPrimaryId(); String id = userId + generateHashCodeForPayload(payload); return id; } }
The POJO MyIdGenerator has one public method that accepts two parameters. However we have also annotated this one with the @Header and @Body annotation to help Camel know what to bind here from the Message from the Exchange being processed.
Of course this could be simplified a lot if you for instance just have a simple id generator. But we wanted to demonstrate that you can use the Bean Binding annotations anywhere.
public class MySimpleIdGenerator { public static int generate() { // generate a unique id return 123; } }
And finally we just need to remember to have our bean registered in the Spring Registry:
<bean id="myCorrelationIdGenerator" class="com.mycompany.MyIdGenerator"/>