Chapter 3. Avro

When using camel-avro with Red Hat build of Camel Spring Boot, add the following Maven dependency to have support for auto configuration:

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.apache.camel.springboot</groupId>
    <artifactId>camel-avro-starter</artifactId>
</dependency>

The Avro dataformat supports 1 options, which are listed below.

Using the avro data format is as easy as specifying that the class that you want to marshal or unmarshal in your route.

AvroDataFormat format = new AvroDataFormat(Value.SCHEMA$);

from("direct:in").marshal(format).to("direct:marshal");
from("direct:back").unmarshal(format).to("direct:unmarshal");

Where Value is an Avro Maven Plugin Generated class.

or in XML

    <camelContext id="camel" xmlns="http://camel.apache.org/schema/spring">
        <route>
            <from uri="direct:in"/>
            <marshal>
                <avro instanceClass="org.apache.camel.dataformat.avro.Message"/>
            </marshal>
            <to uri="log:out"/>
        </route>
    </camelContext>

An alternative can be to specify the dataformat inside the context and reference it from your route.

    <camelContext id="camel" xmlns="http://camel.apache.org/schema/spring">
         <dataFormats>
            <avro id="avro" instanceClass="org.apache.camel.dataformat.avro.Message"/>
        </dataFormats>
        <route>
            <from uri="direct:in"/>
            <marshal><custom ref="avro"/></marshal>
            <to uri="log:out"/>
        </route>
    </camelContext>

In the same manner you can umarshal using the avro data format.

When using avro with Spring Boot make sure to add the Maven dependency to have support for auto configuration. The component supports 2 options, which are listed below.