On Mon, Jan 17, 2022 at 2:42 PM Vyacheslav Boyko <mail4...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, Claus! > > It's not a point to stop you doing that. > But I use .inputType() in every route in which I am able to guarantee > the protocol. I cannot guarantee input type from Kafka because it is > byte array, but every in-memory routes I do. > > It is like interface for OOP - the contract. When I read my routes line > by line from above till bellow I read from(...).inputType(...) and it > helps to remember the contract of interoparations. >
You can use route description to add custom information to a route. > Is it really so interfere with development of Kamelets? > Yes there is too much old legacy / very infrequent code in the core of camel that should/must be cleaned up. > On 1/17/22 16:15, Claus Ibsen wrote: > > Hi > > > > We have some less known features in camel-core > > https://camel.apache.org/manual/validator.html > > https://camel.apache.org/manual/transformer.html > > > > That can be used to associate route(s) with a data type contract, and > > have the route automatically validate if the input/output is as > > expected to this contract. > > > > You can also associate routes with automatic transformation with > > data-formats. > > However all of these are not really in use, and it has had limited > > innovation since its addition. > > > > They are part of the model but to set up the validator/transformers > > then this is not fully implemented in all DSLs and make them harder to > > use outside Java or the legacy XML for blueprint/spring. > > > > Today the high level building blocks are Kamelets where you can/should > > specify the data shape of the kamelet as input/output etc. > > > > In light of this I think we should deprecate the data contract we have > > today and focus on data contracts on Kamelets, and re-architect a more > > modern cloud native perspective for this. > > > > A search on the user mailing list, then, I could only find a post from > > 2017 from a CXF user that declared Camel route with an > > inputType(MyClassHere.class) to setup a route data type. > > > -- > Vyacheslav Boyko > mailto:mail4...@gmail.com > -- Claus Ibsen ----------------- http://davsclaus.com @davsclaus Camel in Action 2: https://www.manning.com/ibsen2
