Chapter 41. Barcode DataFormat

To use the barcode data format in your camel routes you need to add the a dependency on camel-barcode 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-barcode</artifactId>
  <version>x.x.x</version>
</dependency>

The Barcode dataformat supports 5 options which are listed below.

First you have to initialize the barcode data fomat class. You can use the default constructor, or one of parameterized (see JavaDoc). The default values are:

// QR-Code default
DataFormat code = new BarcodeDataFormat();

If you want to use zxing hints, you can use the 'addToHintMap' method of your BarcodeDataFormat instance:

code.addToHintMap(DecodeHintType.TRY_HARDER, Boolean.true);

For possible hints, please consult the xzing documentation.

from("direct://code")
  .marshal(code)
  .to("file://barcode_out");

template.sendBody("direct://code", "This is a testmessage!");

from("file://barcode_in?noop=true")
  .unmarshal(code) // for unmarshalling, the instance doesn't matter
  .to("mock:out");