Appendix D. Fabric8 Camel Maven Plug-In

For validating Camel endpoints in the source code:

To enable the Plugin, add the following to the pom.xml file:

<plugin>
  <groupId>io.fabric8.forge</groupId>
  <artifactId>fabric8-camel-maven-plugin</artifactId>
  <version>2.3.90</version>
</plugin>

Note: Check the current version number of the fabric8-forge release. You can find the latest release at the following location: https://github.com/fabric8io/fabric8-forge/releases.

However, you can run the validate goal from the command line or from your Java editor such as IDEA or Eclipse.

mvn fabric8-camel:validate

You can also enable the Plugin to run automatically as a part of the build to catch the errors.

<plugin>
  <groupId>io.fabric8.forge</groupId>
  <artifactId>fabric8-camel-maven-plugin</artifactId>
  <version>2.3.90</version>
  <executions>
    <execution>
      <phase>process-classes</phase>
    <goals>
      <goal>validate</goal>
    </goals>
    </execution>
  </executions>
</plugin>

The phase determines when the Plugin runs. In the above example, the phase is process-classes which runs after the compilation of the main source code.

You can also configure the maven plugin to validate the test source code. Change the phase as per the process-test-classes as shown below:

<plugin>
  <groupId>io.fabric8.forge</groupId>
  <artifactId>fabric8-camel-maven-plugin</artifactId>
  <version>2.3.80</version>
  <executions>
    <execution>
      <configuration>
        <includeTest>true</includeTest>
      </configuration>
      <phase>process-test-classes</phase>
      <goals>
        <goal>validate</goal>
      </goals>
    </execution>
  </executions>
</plugin>

You can also run the validate goal on any Maven project, without adding the Plugin to the pom.xml file. You need to specify the Plugin, using its fully qualified name. For example, to run the goal on the camel-example-cdi plugin from Apache Camel, execute the following:

    $cd camel-example-cdi
    $mvn io.fabric8.forge:fabric8-camel-maven-plugin:2.3.90:validate

which then runs and displays the following output:

[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Building Camel :: Example :: CDI 2.16.2
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO]
[INFO] --- fabric8-camel-maven-plugin:2.3.90:validate (default-cli) @ camel-example-cdi ---
[INFO] Endpoint validation success: (4 = passed, 0 = invalid, 0 = incapable, 0 = unknown components)
[INFO] Simple validation success: (0 = passed, 0 = invalid)
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD SUCCESS
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------

After passing the validation successfully, you can validate the four endpoints. Let us assume that you made a typo in one of the Camel endpoint uris in the source code, such as:

  @Uri("timer:foo?period=5000")

You can make changes to include a typo error in the period option, such as:

  @Uri("timer:foo?perid=5000")

And when running the validate goal again, reports the following:

[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Building Camel :: Example :: CDI 2.16.2
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO]
[INFO] --- fabric8-camel-maven-plugin:2.3.80:validate (default-cli) @ camel-example-cdi ---
[WARNING] Endpoint validation error at: org.apache.camel.example.cdi.MyRoutes(MyRoutes.java:32)

	timer:foo?perid=5000

	                   perid    Unknown option. Did you mean: [period]


[WARNING] Endpoint validation error: (3 = passed, 1 = invalid, 0 = incapable, 0 = unknown components)
[INFO] Simple validation success: (0 = passed, 0 = invalid)
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD SUCCESS
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------

The maven plugin supports the following options which you can configure from the command line (use -D syntax), or defined in the pom.xml file in the <configuration> tag.

If you have a Maven project, then you can run the plugin to validate the endpoints in the unit test source code as well. You can pass in the options using -D style as shown:

    $cd myproject
    $mvn io.fabric8.forge:fabric8-camel-maven-plugin:2.3.80:validate -DincludeTest=true