Reading the Camel aggregation completion timeout value from properties

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Environment

  • Fuse ESB 7.1.
  • JBoss Fuse 6.0

Issue

User wants to resolve the Camel aggregation completion [1] value from a properties file (from Karaf/ServiceMix/Fuse properties in particular). The motivation behind this request is to avoid hard coding completion timeout values in the code - as a result global change of timeout setting should be possible without redeployment of the given module.

[1] http://camel.apache.org/aggregator2.html

Resolution

Camel can read the timeout completion value dynamically from a properties file using the Camel Simple [1] expression.

Below you can find the example for Blueprint DSL:

<blueprint xmlns="http://www.osgi.org/xmlns/blueprint/v1.0.0"
  xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" 
  xmlns:camel="http://camel.apache.org/schema/blueprint"
  xmlns:cm="http://aries.apache.org/blueprint/xmlns/blueprint-cm/v1.1.0"
  xmlns:prop="http://camel.apache.org/schema/placeholder"
  xsi:schemaLocation="
    http://www.osgi.org/xmlns/blueprint/v1.0.0 http://www.osgi.org/xmlns/blueprint/v1.0.0/blueprint.xsd
    http://aries.apache.org/blueprint/xmlns/blueprint-cm/v1.1.0 http://aries.apache.org/schemas/blueprint-cm/blueprint-cm-1.1.0.xsd
    http://camel.apache.org/schema/blueprint http://camel.apache.org/schema/blueprint/camel-blueprint.xsd">

  <cm:property-placeholder id="myblueprint.placeholder" persistent-id="camel.blueprint">
    <cm:default-properties>
      <cm:property name="aggregationTimeout" value="100"/>
    </cm:default-properties>
  </cm:property-placeholder>
  ...
  <aggregate strategyRef="aggregatorStrategy">
    <correlationExpression>
      <constant>true</constant>
    </correlationExpression>
    <completionTimeout>
      <simple>${properties:aggregationTimeout}</simple>
    </completionTimeout>
    <to uri="mock:result"/>
  </aggregate>
  ...
</blueprint>

Starting from the version 2.10.5, 2.11.1 and 2.12.0 Camel also supports [2] attribute properties placeholders in Blueprint DSL attributes, as demonstrated at snippet below:

<blueprint xmlns="http://www.osgi.org/xmlns/blueprint/v1.0.0"
  xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" 
  xmlns:camel="http://camel.apache.org/schema/blueprint"
  xmlns:cm="http://aries.apache.org/blueprint/xmlns/blueprint-cm/v1.1.0"
  xmlns:prop="http://camel.apache.org/schema/placeholder"
  xsi:schemaLocation="
    http://www.osgi.org/xmlns/blueprint/v1.0.0 http://www.osgi.org/xmlns/blueprint/v1.0.0/blueprint.xsd
    http://aries.apache.org/blueprint/xmlns/blueprint-cm/v1.1.0 http://aries.apache.org/schemas/blueprint-cm/blueprint-cm-1.1.0.xsd
    http://camel.apache.org/schema/blueprint http://camel.apache.org/schema/blueprint/camel-blueprint.xsd">

  <cm:property-placeholder id="myblueprint.placeholder" persistent-id="camel.blueprint">
    <cm:default-properties>
      <cm:property name="aggregationTimeout" value="100"/>
    </cm:default-properties>
  </cm:property-placeholder>
  ...
  <aggregate strategyRef="aggregatorStrategy" prop:completionTimeout="aggregationTimeout">
  ...
</blueprint>

A Fix was implemented in ticket CAMEL-6351 [2] and has also been backported [3] to the Fuse 2.10.0-fuse-71-xx, 2.10.0-fuse-72-xx and 2.11.0-fuse-00-xx.

[1] http://camel.apache.org/simple
[2] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CAMEL-6351
[3] https://issues.jboss.org/browse/MR-719

Diagnostic Steps

In order to see the working example see the zipped proof of concept (in the form of the Maven project) attached to this document.

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