CBR Content Location

[tobysaville]

I am placing a MyRequest object in my message using

ActionUtils.setTaskObject(message, myRequest);

I then have my service configured with the following action

org.jboss.soa.esb.actions.converters.ObjectToXStream

So the object is converted to XML prior to using the following action for routing based on the value of the XML output by the previous Action

org.jboss.soa.esb.actions.ContentBasedRouter

This approach is simply so i dont have to do the trivial conversion to XML using XStream, myself.

The problem however, is that in the ContentBasedRouter Action, the body's byte array is inspected, instead of the named object used by ObjectToXStream (ie ActionUtils.getTaskObject)

Can i suggest that a method such as the following be used in the class called org.jboss.internal.soa.esb.services.routing.cbr.DslHelper so that both places are checked during CBR:

 private static byte[] getContents(Message message) {
 byte[] contents = message.getBody().getByteArray();

 if (contents == null
 || (contents !=null && contents.length == 0)) {
 Object obj = ActionUtils.getTaskObject(message);

 if (obj instanceof String) {
 contents = ((String)obj).getBytes();
 }
 }

 return contents;
 }

- tobes

[marklittle]

The whole byte-array/taskObject approach is being re-evaluated for the 4.2.1 release. For obvious reasons it'll remain, but hopefully we can offer something more intuitive alongside it.

[tobysaville]

Thanks Mark,

In the end i added another action between those two that copied the Task object into the body - it works for me but certainly not for all cases.

- tobes