Good suggestion :) Please feel free to fill a JIRA[1] for it, so we can keep on tracking it. It will be grate if you submit a patch of this issue :).
[1] https://issues.apache.org/activemq/browse/CAMEL Willem Joe Gottman wrote: > FileComponent currently has an append option, which is set to true for File > Producers to make the Producer write to the end of an existing file, and > false to make it overwrite an existing file. However, sometimes it is an > error for it to do anything to change an existing file. Would it be > possible to add a clobber option to the FileComponent which defaults to true > but when set to false prevents the File Producer from modifying an existing > file? It should probably throw some kind of Camel Exception when it > attempts to write to a file that already exists. If desired, the Route can > then catch this Exception and handle it, for instance by trying to write the > file to a different location. > > This option might also be useful for some other Producer components for > the same reason.
