Chapter 30. AWS MQ Component

Available as of Camel version 2.21

The MQ component supports create, run, start, stop and terminate AWS MQ instances.

Prerequisites

You must have a valid Amazon Web Services developer account, and be signed up to use Amazon MQ. More information are available at Amazon MQ.

30.1. URI Format

aws-mq://label[?options]

You can append query options to the URI in the following format, ?options=value&option2=value&…​

30.2. URI Options

The AWS MQ component supports 5 options which are listed below.

NameDescriptionDefaultType

configuration (advanced)

The AWS MQ default configuration

 

MQConfiguration

accessKey (producer)

Amazon AWS Access Key

 

String

secretKey (producer)

Amazon AWS Secret Key

 

String

region (producer)

The region in which MQ client needs to work

 

String

resolveProperty Placeholders (advanced)

Whether the component should resolve property placeholders on itself when starting. Only properties which are of String type can use property placeholders.

true

boolean

The AWS MQ endpoint is configured using URI syntax:

aws-mq:label

with the following path and query parameters:

30.2.1. Path Parameters (1 parameters):

NameDescriptionDefaultType

label

Required Logical name

 

String

30.2.2. Query Parameters (8 parameters):

NameDescriptionDefaultType

accessKey (producer)

Amazon AWS Access Key

 

String

amazonMqClient (producer)

To use a existing configured AmazonMQClient as client

 

AmazonMQ

operation (producer)

Required The operation to perform. It can be listBrokers,createBroker,deleteBroker

 

MQOperations

proxyHost (producer)

To define a proxy host when instantiating the MQ client

 

String

proxyPort (producer)

To define a proxy port when instantiating the MQ client

 

Integer

region (producer)

The region in which MQ client needs to work

 

String

secretKey (producer)

Amazon AWS Secret Key

 

String

synchronous (advanced)

Sets whether synchronous processing should be strictly used, or Camel is allowed to use asynchronous processing (if supported).

false

boolean

Required EC2 component options

You have to provide the amazonEc2Client in the Registry or your accessKey and secretKey to access the Amazon EC2 service.

30.3. Usage

30.3.1. Message headers evaluated by the MQ producer

HeaderTypeDescription

CamelAwsMQMaxResults

String

The number of results that must be retrieved from listBrokers operation

CamelAwsMQBrokerName

String

The broker name

CamelAwsMQOperation

String

The operation we want to perform

CamelAwsMQBrokerId

String

The broker id

CamelAwsMQBrokerDeploymentMode

String

The deployment mode for the broker in the createBroker operation

Dependencies

Maven users will need to add the following dependency to their pom.xml.

pom.xml

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.apache.camel</groupId>
    <artifactId>camel-aws</artifactId>
    <version>${camel-version}</version>
</dependency>

where ${camel-version} must be replaced by the actual version of Camel (2.16 or higher).

30.4. See Also

  • Configuring Camel
  • Component
  • Endpoint
  • Getting Started
  • AWS Component