Chapter 350. YAML SnakeYAML DataFormat
Available as of Camel version 2.17
YAML is a Data Format to marshal and unmarshal Java objects to and from http://www.yaml.org/[YAML].
For YAML to object marshalling, Camel provides integration with three popular YAML libraries:
- The http://www.snakeyaml.org/[SnakeYAML] library
Every library requires adding the special camel component (see "Dependency…" paragraphs further down). By default Camel uses the SnakeYAML library.
350.1. YAML Options
The YAML SnakeYAML dataformat supports 11 options which are listed below.
| Name | Default | Java Type | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| library |
|
| Which yaml library to use. By default it is SnakeYAML |
| unmarshalTypeName |
| Class name of the java type to use when unarmshalling | |
| constructor |
| BaseConstructor to construct incoming documents. | |
| representer |
| Representer to emit outgoing objects. | |
| dumperOptions |
| DumperOptions to configure outgoing objects. | |
| resolver |
| Resolver to detect implicit type | |
| useApplicationContextClassLoader |
|
| Use ApplicationContextClassLoader as custom ClassLoader |
| prettyFlow |
|
| Force the emitter to produce a pretty YAML document when using the flow style. |
| allowAnyType |
|
| Allow any class to be un-marshaled |
| typeFilter |
| Set the types SnakeYAML is allowed to un-marshall | |
| contentTypeHeader |
|
| Whether the data format should set the Content-Type header with the type from the data format if the data format is capable of doing so. For example application/xml for data formats marshalling to XML, or application/json for data formats marshalling to JSon etc. |
SnakeYAML can load any class from YAML definition which may lead to security breach so by default, SnakeYAML DataForma restrict the object it can load to standard Java objects like List or Long. If you want to load custom POJOs you need to add theirs type to SnakeYAML DataFormat type filter list. If your source is trusted, you can set the property allowAnyType to true so SnakeYAML DataForma won’t perform any filter on the types.
350.2. Using YAML data format with the SnakeYAML library
Turn Object messages into yaml then send to MQSeries
from("activemq:My.Queue") .marshal().yaml() .to("mqseries:Another.Queue");from("activemq:My.Queue") .marshal().yaml(YAMLLibrary.SnakeYAML) .to("mqseries:Another.Queue");Restrict classes to be loaded from YAML
// Creat a SnakeYAMLDataFormat instance SnakeYAMLDataFormat yaml = new SnakeYAMLDataFormat(); // Restrict classes to be loaded from YAML yaml.addTypeFilters(TypeFilters.types(MyPojo.class, MyOtherPojo.class)); from("activemq:My.Queue") .unmarshal(yaml) .to("mqseries:Another.Queue");
350.3. Using YAML in Spring DSL
When using Data Format in Spring DSL you need to declare the data formats first. This is done in the DataFormats XML tag.
<dataFormats>
<!--
here we define a YAML data format with the id snake and that it should use
the TestPojo as the class type when doing unmarshal. The unmarshalTypeName
is optional
-->
<yaml
id="snake"
library="SnakeYAML"
unmarshalTypeName="org.apache.camel.component.yaml.model.TestPojo"/>
<!--
here we define a YAML data format with the id snake-safe which restricts the
classes to be loaded from YAML to TestPojo and those belonging to package
com.mycompany
-->
<yaml id="snake-safe">
<typeFilter value="org.apache.camel.component.yaml.model.TestPojo"/>
<typeFilter value="com.mycompany\..*" type="regexp"/>
</yaml>
</dataFormats>And then you can refer to those ids in the route:
<route>
<from uri="direct:unmarshal"/>
<unmarshal>
<custom ref="snake"/>
</unmarshal>
<to uri="mock:unmarshal"/>
</route>
<route>
<from uri="direct:unmarshal-safe"/>
<unmarshal>
<custom ref="snake-safe"/>
</unmarshal>
<to uri="mock:unmarshal-safe"/>
</route>350.4. Dependencies for SnakeYAML
To use YAML in your camel routes you need to add the a dependency on camel-snakeyaml which implements this data format.
If you use maven you could just add the following to your pom.xml, substituting the version number for the latest & greatest release (see the download page for the latest versions).
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.camel</groupId>
<artifactId>camel-snakeyaml</artifactId>
<version>${camel-version}</version>
</dependency>