Hi I have been wondering if it somehow would be possible to let Camel be very smart when it comes to type converters. We have endpoints, components, etc. that expect and can only handle certain types. So end-users get sometimes a issue that their payload type is not compatible. https://issues.apache.org/activemq/browse/CAMEL-978
I was wondering if we could provide some kind of converter logic engine that could do chained type converters (supporting only standard JDK types, so it's safe to convert a -> b -> c, and not "loose" information) So for instance if you need a InputStream and there is already a type converter to String, then the engine could do the last step Type converter already in the component: SomeType -> String But we need an InputStream type. Then the engine could do the last converter ions as it's a (String -> InputStream and both types are standard JDK types) So the convertions would be: SomeType -A-> String -B-> InputStream Whereas A: is an existing type converter in the camel component (@Converter) And B: is the new type converter engine. Med venlig hilsen Claus Ibsen ...................................... Silverbullet Skovsgårdsvænget 21 8362 Hørning Tlf. +45 2962 7576 Web: www.silverbullet.dk
