Chapter 245. OGNL Language
Available as of Camel version 1.1
Camel allows OGNL to be used as an Expression or Predicate the DSL or Xml Configuration.
You could use OGNL to create an Predicate in a Message Filter or as an Expression for a Recipient List
You can use OGNL dot notation to invoke operations. If you for instance have a body that contains a POJO that has a getFamilyName method then you can construct the syntax as follows:
"request.body.familyName" // or "getRequest().getBody().getFamilyName()"
245.1. OGNL Options
The OGNL language supports 1 options which are listed below.
| Name | Default | Java Type | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| trim |
|
| Whether to trim the value to remove leading and trailing whitespaces and line breaks |
245.2. Variables
| Variable | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| this | Exchange | the Exchange is the root object |
| exchange | Exchange | the Exchange object |
| exception | Throwable | the Exchange exception (if any) |
| exchangeId | String | the exchange id |
| fault | Message | the Fault message (if any) |
| request | Message | the exchange.in message |
| response | Message | the exchange.out message (if any) |
| properties | Map | the exchange properties |
| property(name) | Object | the property by the given name |
| property(name, type) | Type | the property by the given name as the given type |
245.3. Samples
For example you could use OGNL inside a Message Filter in XML
<route>
<from uri="seda:foo"/>
<filter>
<ognl>request.headers.foo == 'bar'</ognl>
<to uri="seda:bar"/>
</filter>
</route>And the sample using Java DSL:
from("seda:foo").filter().ognl("request.headers.foo == 'bar'").to("seda:bar");245.4. Loading script from external resource
Available as of Camel 2.11
You can externalize the script and have Camel load it from a resource such as "classpath:", "file:", or "http:".
This is done using the following syntax: "resource:scheme:location", eg to refer to a file on the classpath you can do:
.setHeader("myHeader").ognl("resource:classpath:myognl.txt")245.5. Dependencies
To use OGNL in your camel routes you need to add the a dependency on camel-ognl which implements the OGNL language.
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-ognl</artifactId> <version>x.x.x</version> </dependency>
Otherwise, you’ll also need OGNL
