Camel route as a template for other routes

[sujoebose]

Is it possible to create a camel route as a template and instantiate it for many other routes using the same template but substituting the actual URIs using configurable parameters?

For example, with a simple route pattern such as from(source).to(destination),

instead of creating a new OSGI bundle (for Fuse ServiceMix 4.x) for every new route to be added or even updating an existing with a new route within the CamelContext, is there a way to define the above template once and reuse that bundle to instantiate several routes with just the source and destination being changed for each route?

[ffang]

Hi,

I think probably you can use properties placeholder and ConfigAdmin OSGi service to replace source and destination url during runtime.

You may need take a look at camel-osgi example shipped with kit to get more details how to use properties placeholder in OSGi container.

Freeman

[njiang]

You can change the route destination endpoint dynamically by using Dynamic Router or Recipient List

But I don't think you can create several routes without calling the API of CamelContext after the bundle is actived.

Willem

[davsclaus]

Yeah using the model API (xxxDefinition) you can create a template for a route. And use that to create new runtime routes.

Then you can just change the endpoint URIs of the model before you create a route.

CamelContext has API.

And you can use a RouteBuilder to create the template route, or do it manually using the xxxDefinition API.