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Chapter 144. iCal DataFormat

Available as of Camel version 2.12

The ICal dataformat is used for working with iCalendar messages.

A typical iCalendar message looks like:

BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//Events Calendar//iCal4j 1.0//EN
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20130324T180000Z
DTSTART:20130401T170000
DTEND:20130401T210000
SUMMARY:Progress Meeting
TZID:America/New_York
UID:00000000
ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;CN=Developer 1:mailto:dev1@mycompany.com
ATTENDEE;ROLE=OPT-PARTICIPANT;CN=Developer 2:mailto:dev2@mycompany.com
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR

144.1. Options

The iCal dataformat supports 2 options which are listed below.

NameDefaultJava TypeDescription

validating

false

Boolean

Whether to validate.

contentTypeHeader

false

Boolean

Whether the data format should set the Content-Type header with the type from the data format if the data format is capable of doing so. For example application/xml for data formats marshalling to XML, or application/json for data formats marshalling to JSon etc.

144.2. Basic Usage

To unmarshal and marshal the message shown above, your route will look like the following:

from("direct:ical-unmarshal")
  .unmarshal("ical")
  .to("mock:unmarshaled")
  .marshal("ical")
  .to("mock:marshaled");

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

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

144.3. See Also

  • Configuring Camel
  • Component
  • Endpoint
  • Getting Started