Chapter 263. Ribbon Component

Available as of Camel version 2.18

The ribbon component provides use of Netflix Ribbon for client side load balancing.

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

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

This component helps applying load balancing feature at the client side when using ServiceCall EIP.

263.1. Configuration

  • Programmatic 

    RibbonConfiguration configuration = new RibbonConfiguration();
configuration.addProperties("ServerListRefreshInterval", "250");

RibbonLoadBalancer loadBalancer = new RibbonLoadBalancer(configuration);

from("direct:start")
    .serviceCall()
        .name("myService")
        .loadBalancer(loadBalancer)
        .consulServiceDiscovery()
        .end()
    .to("mock:result");

  • Spring Boot

    application.properties

    camel.cloud.ribbon.properties[ServerListRefreshInterval] = 250

    routes

    from("direct:start")
    .serviceCall()
        .name("myService")
        .ribbonLoadBalancer()
        .consulServiceDiscovery()
        .end()
    .to("mock:result");

  • XML 

    <route>
    <from uri="direct:start"/>
    <serviceCall name="myService">
        <!-- enable ribbon load balancer -->
        <ribbonLoadBalancer>
            <properties key="ServerListRefreshInterval" value="250"/>
        </ribbonLoadBalancer>
    </serviceCall>
</route>

263.2. See Also