Chapter 98. OSGi EventAdmin Component

Available as of Camel version 2.6

The eventadmin component can be used in an OSGi environment to receive OSGi EventAdmin events and process them.

98.1. Dependencies

Maven users need to add the following dependency to their pom.xml

<dependency>
  <groupId>org.apache.camel</groupId>
  <artifactId>camel-eventadmin</artifactId>
  <version>${camel-version}</version>
</dependency>

where ${camel-version} must be replaced by the actual version of Camel (2.6.0 or higher).

eventadmin:topic[?options]

where topic is the name of the topic to listen too.

The OSGi EventAdmin component supports 2 options, which are listed below.

Name	Description	Default	Type
bundleContext (common)	The OSGi BundleContext is automatic injected by Camel		BundleContext
resolveProperty Placeholders (advanced)	Whether the component should resolve property placeholders on itself when starting. Only properties which are of String type can use property placeholders.	true	boolean

The OSGi EventAdmin endpoint is configured using URI syntax:

eventadmin:topic

with the following path and query parameters:

Name	Description	Default	Type
topic	Name of topic to listen or send to		String

Name	Description	Default	Type
send (common)	Whether to use 'send' or 'synchronous' deliver. Default false (async delivery)	false	boolean
bridgeErrorHandler (consumer)	Allows for bridging the consumer to the Camel routing Error Handler, which mean any exceptions occurred while the consumer is trying to pickup incoming messages, or the likes, will now be processed as a message and handled by the routing Error Handler. By default the consumer will use the org.apache.camel.spi.ExceptionHandler to deal with exceptions, that will be logged at WARN or ERROR level and ignored.	false	boolean
exceptionHandler (consumer)	To let the consumer use a custom ExceptionHandler. Notice if the option bridgeErrorHandler is enabled then this option is not in use. By default the consumer will deal with exceptions, that will be logged at WARN or ERROR level and ignored.		ExceptionHandler
exchangePattern (consumer)	Sets the exchange pattern when the consumer creates an exchange.		ExchangePattern
synchronous (advanced)	Sets whether synchronous processing should be strictly used, or Camel is allowed to use asynchronous processing (if supported).	false	boolean

Name	Type	Message
Description

The in message body will be set to the received Event.

<route>
    <from uri="eventadmin:*"/>
    <to uri="stream:out"/>
</route>