On Tue, Mar 29, 2022 at 6:26 PM Nicolas Filotto <nfilo...@talend.com> wrote: > > Hi all, > > As you know, the camel-package-maven-plugin does many different tasks, one of > them is to generate a JSON file containing the metadata of a given component. > As this plugin is launched against all existing components, we can always > retrieve the metadata of a given component by reading this file directly from > its corresponding artifact. > > Those JSON files are used internally by different Camel tools to generate for > instance the documentation. > > My question is the following, maybe I missed it, but I don't see any > documentation about those files, so I was wondering if they were only meant > to be used internally or they can be used by external tools too? >
What you see in camel-catalog is what is intended for 3rd party tools. The json structure and what information we put in there can change over time - its not set in stone. External tools such as the IDEA plugin, VSCode plugins etc uses the camel-catalog. > Regards, > Nicolas > > As a recipient of an email from Talend, your contact personal data will be on > our systems. Please see our privacy notice. <https://www.talend.com/privacy/> > > -- Claus Ibsen ----------------- http://davsclaus.com @davsclaus Camel in Action 2: https://www.manning.com/ibsen2
