Chapter 19. Data Format
Only producer is supported
The Dataformat component allows to use the Data Format as a Camel Component.
19.1. URI format
dataformat:name:(marshal|unmarshal)[?options]
Where name is the name of the Data Format. And then followed by the operation which must either be marshal or unmarshal. The options is used for configuring the Data Format in use. See the Data Format documentation for which options it support.
19.2. DataFormat Options
19.2.1. Configuring Options
Camel components are configured on two separate levels:
- component level
- endpoint level
19.2.1.1. Configuring Component Options
The component level is the highest level which holds general and common configurations that are inherited by the endpoints. For example a component may have security settings, credentials for authentication, urls for network connection and so forth.
Some components only have a few options, and others may have many. Because components typically have pre configured defaults that are commonly used, then you may often only need to configure a few options on a component; or none at all.
Configuring components can be done with the Component DSL, in a configuration file (application.properties|yaml), or directly with Java code.
19.2.1.2. Configuring Endpoint Options
Where you find yourself configuring the most is on endpoints, as endpoints often have many options, which allows you to configure what you need the endpoint to do. The options are also categorized into whether the endpoint is used as consumer (from) or as a producer (to), or used for both.
Configuring endpoints is most often done directly in the endpoint URI as path and query parameters. You can also use the Endpoint DSL as a type safe way of configuring endpoints.
A good practice when configuring options is to use Property Placeholders, which allows to not hardcode urls, port numbers, sensitive information, and other settings. In other words placeholders allows to externalize the configuration from your code, and gives more flexibility and reuse.
The following two sections lists all the options, firstly for the component followed by the endpoint.
19.3. Component Options
The Data Format component supports 2 options, which are listed below.
| Name | Description | Default | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| lazyStartProducer (producer) | Whether the producer should be started lazy (on the first message). By starting lazy you can use this to allow CamelContext and routes to startup in situations where a producer may otherwise fail during starting and cause the route to fail being started. By deferring this startup to be lazy then the startup failure can be handled during routing messages via Camel’s routing error handlers. Beware that when the first message is processed then creating and starting the producer may take a little time and prolong the total processing time of the processing. | false | boolean |
| autowiredEnabled (advanced) | Whether autowiring is enabled. This is used for automatic autowiring options (the option must be marked as autowired) by looking up in the registry to find if there is a single instance of matching type, which then gets configured on the component. This can be used for automatic configuring JDBC data sources, JMS connection factories, AWS Clients, etc. | true | boolean |
19.4. Endpoint Options
The Data Format endpoint is configured using URI syntax:
dataformat:name:operation
with the following path and query parameters:
19.4.1. Path Parameters (2 parameters)
| Name | Description | Default | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| name (producer) | Required Name of data format. | String | |
| operation (producer) | Required Operation to use either marshal or unmarshal. Enum values:
| String |
19.4.2. Query Parameters (1 parameters)
| Name | Description | Default | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| lazyStartProducer (producer) | Whether the producer should be started lazy (on the first message). By starting lazy you can use this to allow CamelContext and routes to startup in situations where a producer may otherwise fail during starting and cause the route to fail being started. By deferring this startup to be lazy then the startup failure can be handled during routing messages via Camel’s routing error handlers. Beware that when the first message is processed then creating and starting the producer may take a little time and prolong the total processing time of the processing. | false | boolean |
19.5. Samples
For example to use the JAXB Data Format we can do as follows:
from("activemq:My.Queue").
to("dataformat:jaxb:unmarshal?contextPath=com.acme.model").
to("mqseries:Another.Queue");And in XML DSL you do:
<camelContext id="camel" xmlns="http://camel.apache.org/schema/spring">
<route>
<from uri="activemq:My.Queue"/>
<to uri="dataformat:jaxb:unmarshal?contextPath=com.acme.model"/>
<to uri="mqseries:Another.Queue"/>
</route>
</camelContext>19.6. Spring Boot Auto-Configuration
When using dataformat with Spring Boot make sure to use the following Maven dependency to have support for auto configuration:
<dependency> <groupId>org.apache.camel.springboot</groupId> <artifactId>camel-dataformat-starter</artifactId> </dependency>
The component supports 3 options, which are listed below.
| Name | Description | Default | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| camel.component.dataformat.autowired-enabled | Whether autowiring is enabled. This is used for automatic autowiring options (the option must be marked as autowired) by looking up in the registry to find if there is a single instance of matching type, which then gets configured on the component. This can be used for automatic configuring JDBC data sources, JMS connection factories, AWS Clients, etc. | true | Boolean |
| camel.component.dataformat.enabled | Whether to enable auto configuration of the dataformat component. This is enabled by default. | Boolean | |
| camel.component.dataformat.lazy-start-producer | Whether the producer should be started lazy (on the first message). By starting lazy you can use this to allow CamelContext and routes to startup in situations where a producer may otherwise fail during starting and cause the route to fail being started. By deferring this startup to be lazy then the startup failure can be handled during routing messages via Camel’s routing error handlers. Beware that when the first message is processed then creating and starting the producer may take a little time and prolong the total processing time of the processing. | false | Boolean |
