Spring Integration Component

The spring-integration: component provides a bridge for Camel components to talk to spring integration endpoints.

Maven users will need to add the following dependency to their pom.xml for this component:

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.apache.camel</groupId>
    <artifactId>camel-spring-integration</artifactId>
    <version>x.x.x</version>
    <!-- use the same version as your Camel core version -->
</dependency>

URI format

spring-integration:defaultChannelName[?options]

Where defaultChannelName represents the default channel name which is used by the Spring Integration Spring context. It will equal to the inputChannel name for the Spring Integration consumer and the outputChannel name for the Spring Integration provider.

You can append query options to the URI in the following format, ?option=value&option=value&...

Options

Name Type Description
inputChannel String The Spring integration input channel name that this endpoint wants to consume from, where the specified channel name is defined in the Spring context.
outputChannel String The Spring integration output channel name that is used to send messages to the Spring integration context.
inOut String The exchange pattern that the Spring integration endpoint should use. If inOut=true then a reply channel is expected, either from the Spring Integration Message header or configured on the endpoint.

Usage

The Spring integration component is a bridge that connects Camel endpoints with Spring integration endpoints through the Spring integration's input channels and output channels. Using this component, we can send Camel messages to Spring Integration endpoints or receive messages from Spring integration endpoints in a Camel routing context.

Examples

Using the Spring integration endpoint

You can set up a Spring integration endpoint using a URI, as follows: 

<beans:beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/integration"
             xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
             xmlns:beans="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
             xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
			http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
			http://www.springframework.org/schema/integration
			http://www.springframework.org/schema/integration/spring-integration.xsd
			http://camel.apache.org/schema/spring
			http://camel.apache.org/schema/spring/camel-spring.xsd">

    <!-- spring integration channels -->
    <channel id="inputChannel"/>
    <channel id="outputChannel"/>
    <channel id="onewayChannel"/>

    <!-- spring integration service activators -->
    <service-activator input-channel="inputChannel" ref="helloService" method="sayHello"/>
    <service-activator input-channel="onewayChannel" ref="helloService" method="greet"/>

    <!-- custom bean -->
    <beans:bean id="helloService" class="org.apache.camel.component.spring.integration.HelloWorldService"/>

    <camelContext id="camel" xmlns="http://camel.apache.org/schema/spring">
        <route>
            <from uri="direct:twowayMessage"/>
            <to uri="spring-integration:inputChannel?inOut=true&amp;inputChannel=outputChannel"/>
        </route>
        <route>
            <from uri="direct:onewayMessage"/>
            <to uri="spring-integration:onewayChannel?inOut=false"/>
        </route>
    </camelContext>

<!-- spring integration channels -->
<channel id="requestChannel"/>
<channel id="responseChannel"/>

<!-- cusom Camel processor -->
<beans:bean id="myProcessor" class="org.apache.camel.component.spring.integration.MyProcessor"/>

<!-- Camel route -->
<camelContext  xmlns="http://camel.apache.org/schema/spring">
    <route>
        <from uri="spring-integration://requestChannel?outputChannel=responseChannel&amp;inOut=true"/>
        <process ref="myProcessor"/>
    </route>
</camelContext>

Or directly using a Spring integration channel name:

<beans:beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/integration"
             xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
             xmlns:beans="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
             xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
			http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
			http://www.springframework.org/schema/integration
			http://www.springframework.org/schema/integration/spring-integration.xsd
			http://camel.apache.org/schema/spring
			http://camel.apache.org/schema/spring/camel-spring.xsd">

    <!-- spring integration channel -->
    <channel id="outputChannel"/>

    <camelContext xmlns="http://camel.apache.org/schema/spring">
        <route>
            <from uri="outputChannel"/>
            <to uri="mock:result"/>
        </route>
    </camelContext>

The Source and Target adapter

Spring integration also provides the Spring integration's source and target adapters, which can route messages from a Spring integration channel to a Camel endpoint or from a Camel endpoint to a Spring integration channel.

This example uses the following namespaces:

<beans:beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/integration"
       xmlns:beans="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
       xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
       xmlns:camel-si="http://camel.apache.org/schema/spring/integration"
       xsi:schemaLocation="
       http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
       http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
       http://www.springframework.org/schema/integration
	   http://www.springframework.org/schema/integration/spring-integration.xsd
       http://camel.apache.org/schema/spring/integration
       http://camel.apache.org/schema/spring/integration/camel-spring-integration.xsd
       http://camel.apache.org/schema/spring
       http://camel.apache.org/schema/spring/camel-spring.xsd
    ">

You can bind your source or target to a Camel endpoint as follows:

<!-- Create the camel context here -->
<camelContext id="camelTargetContext" xmlns="http://camel.apache.org/schema/spring">
    <route>
        <from uri="direct:EndpointA" />
        <to uri="mock:result" />
    </route>
    <route>
        <from uri="direct:EndpointC"/>
        <process ref="myProcessor"/>
      </route>
</camelContext>

<!-- We can bind the camelTarget to the camel context's endpoint by specifying the camelEndpointUri attribute -->
<camel-si:camelTarget id="camelTargetA" camelEndpointUri="direct:EndpointA" expectReply="false">
    <camel-si:camelContextRef>camelTargetContext</camel-si:camelContextRef>
</camel-si:camelTarget>

<camel-si:camelTarget id="camelTargetB" camelEndpointUri="direct:EndpointC" replyChannel="channelC" expectReply="true">
    <camel-si:camelContextRef>camelTargetContext</camel-si:camelContextRef>
</camel-si:camelTarget>

<camel-si:camelTarget id="camelTargetD" camelEndpointUri="direct:EndpointC" expectReply="true">
    <camel-si:camelContextRef>camelTargetContext</camel-si:camelContextRef>
</camel-si:camelTarget>

<beans:bean id="myProcessor" class="org.apache.camel.component.spring.integration.MyProcessor"/>

<!-- spring integration channels -->
<channel id="channelA"/>
<channel id="channelB"/>
<channel id="channelC"/>

<!-- spring integration service activator -->
<service-activator input-channel="channelB" output-channel="channelC" ref="helloService" method="sayHello"/>

<!-- custom bean -->
<beans:bean id="helloService" class="org.apache.camel.component.spring.integration.HelloWorldService"/>

<camelContext id="camelSourceContext" xmlns="http://camel.apache.org/schema/spring">
    <route>
        <from uri="direct:OneWay"/>
        <to uri="direct:EndpointB"/>
    </route>
    <route>
        <from uri="direct:TwoWay"/>
        <to uri="direct:EndpointC"/>
    </route>
</camelContext>

<!-- camelSource will redirect the message coming for direct:EndpointB to the spring requestChannel channelA -->
<camel-si:camelSource id="camelSourceA" camelEndpointUri="direct:EndpointB"
                      requestChannel="channelA" expectReply="false">
    <camel-si:camelContextRef>camelSourceContext</camel-si:camelContextRef>
</camel-si:camelSource>

<!-- camelSource will redirect the message coming for direct:EndpointC to the spring requestChannel channelB
     then it will pull the response from channelC and put the response message back to direct:EndpointC -->

<camel-si:camelSource id="camelSourceB" camelEndpointUri="direct:EndpointC"
                      requestChannel="channelB" replyChannel="channelC" expectReply="true">
    <camel-si:camelContextRef>camelSourceContext</camel-si:camelContextRef>
</camel-si:camelSource>

See Also
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