Language

Available as of Camel 2.5

The language component allows you to send Exchange to an endpoint which executes a script by any of the supported Languages in Camel.
By having a component to execute language scripts, it allows more dynamic routing capabilities. For example by using the Routing Slip or Dynamic Router EIPs you can send messages to language endpoints where the script is dynamic defined as well.

This component is provided out of the box in camel-core and hence no additional JARs is needed. You only have to include additional Camel components if the language of choice mandates it, such as using Groovy or JavaScript languages.

URI format

language://languageName[:script][?options]

URI Options

The component supports the following options.

Message Headers

The following message headers can be used to affect the behavior of the component

Examples

For example you can use the Simple language to Message Translator a message:

String script = URLEncoder.encode("Hello ${body}", "UTF-8");
from("direct:start").to("language:simple:" + script).to("mock:result");

In case you want to convert the message body type you can do this as well:

String script = URLEncoder.encode("${mandatoryBodyAs(String)}", "UTF-8");
from("direct:start").to("language:simple:" + script).to("mock:result");

You can also use the Groovy language, such as this example where the input message will by multiplied with 2:

String script = URLEncoder.encode("request.body * 2", "UTF-8");
from("direct:start").to("language:groovy:" + script).to("mock:result");

You can also provide the script as a header as shown below. Here we use XPath language to extract the text from the <foo> tag.

Object out = producer.requestBodyAndHeader("language:xpath", "<foo>Hello World</foo>", Exchange.LANGUAGE_SCRIPT, "/foo/text()");
assertEquals("Hello World", out);

Loading scripts from resources

Available as of Camel 2.9

You can specify a resource uri for a script to load in either the endpoint uri, or in the Exchange.LANGUAGE_SCRIPT header.
The uri must start with one of the following schemes: file:, classpath:, or http:

For example to load a script from the classpath:

from("direct:start")
    // load the script from the classpath
    .to("language:simple:classpath:org/apache/camel/component/language/mysimplescript.txt")
    .to("mock:result");

By default the script is loaded once and cached. However you can disable the contentCache option and have the script loaded on each evaluation.
For example if the file myscript.txt is changed on disk, then the updated script is used:

from("direct:start")
    // the script will be loaded on each message, as we disabled cache
    .to("language:simple:file:target/script/myscript.txt?contentCache=false")
    .to("mock:result");

See Also

• Configuring Camel
• Component
• Endpoint
• Getting Started

• Languages
• Routing Slip
• Dynamic Router