Chapter 109. FOP Component
Available as of Camel version 2.10
The FOP component allows you to render a message into different output formats using Apache FOP.
Maven users will need to add the following dependency to their pom.xml for this component:
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.camel</groupId>
<artifactId>camel-fop</artifactId>
<version>x.x.x</version>
<!-- use the same version as your Camel core version -->
</dependency>109.1. URI format
fop://outputFormat?[options]
109.2. Output Formats
The primary output format is PDF but other output formats are also supported:
| name | outputFormat | description |
|---|---|---|
| | application/pdf | Portable Document Format |
| PS | application/postscript | Adobe Postscript |
| PCL | application/x-pcl | Printer Control Language |
| PNG | image/png | PNG images |
| JPEG | image/jpeg | JPEG images |
| SVG | image/svg+xml | Scalable Vector Graphics |
| XML | application/X-fop-areatree | Area tree representation |
| MIF | application/mif | FrameMaker’s MIF |
| RTF | application/rtf | Rich Text Format |
| TXT | text/plain | Text |
The complete list of valid output formats can be found here
109.3. Endpoint Options
The FOP component has no options.
The FOP endpoint is configured using URI syntax:
fop:outputType
with the following path and query parameters:
109.3.1. Path Parameters (1 parameters):
| Name | Description | Default | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| outputType | Required The primary output format is PDF but other output formats are also supported. | FopOutputType |
109.3.2. Query Parameters (3 parameters):
| Name | Description | Default | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| fopFactory (producer) | Allows to use a custom configured or implementation of org.apache.fop.apps.FopFactory. | FopFactory | |
| userConfigURL (producer) | The location of a configuration file which can be loaded from classpath or file system. | String | |
| synchronous (advanced) | Sets whether synchronous processing should be strictly used, or Camel is allowed to use asynchronous processing (if supported). | false | boolean |
109.4. Spring Boot Auto-Configuration
The component supports 2 options, which are listed below.
| Name | Description | Default | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| camel.component.fop.enabled | Enable fop component | true | Boolean |
| camel.component.fop.resolve-property-placeholders | 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 location of a configuration file with the following structure. From Camel 2.12 onwards the file is loaded from the classpath by default. You can use file:, or classpath: as prefix to load the resource from file or classpath. In previous releases the file is always loaded from file system.
fopFactory
Allows to use a custom configured or implementation of org.apache.fop.apps.FopFactory.
109.5. Message Operations
| name | default value | description |
|---|---|---|
| CamelFop.Output.Format | Overrides the output format for that message | |
| CamelFop.Encrypt.userPassword | PDF user password | |
| CamelFop.Encrypt.ownerPassword | PDF owner passoword | |
| CamelFop.Encrypt.allowPrint | true | Allows printing the PDF |
| CamelFop.Encrypt.allowCopyContent | true | Allows copying content of the PDF |
| CamelFop.Encrypt.allowEditContent | true | Allows editing content of the PDF |
| CamelFop.Encrypt.allowEditAnnotations | true | Allows editing annotation of the PDF |
| CamelFop.Render.producer | Apache FOP | Metadata element for the system/software that produces the document |
| CamelFop.Render.creator | Metadata element for the user that created the document | |
| CamelFop.Render.creationDate | Creation Date | |
| CamelFop.Render.author | Author of the content of the document | |
| CamelFop.Render.title | Title of the document | |
| CamelFop.Render.subject | Subject of the document | |
| CamelFop.Render.keywords | Set of keywords applicable to this document |
109.6. Example
Below is an example route that renders PDFs from xml data and xslt template and saves the PDF files in target folder:
from("file:source/data/xml")
.to("xslt:xslt/template.xsl")
.to("fop:application/pdf")
.to("file:target/data");For more information, see these resources…
109.7. See Also
- Configuring Camel
- Component
- Endpoint
- Getting Started
