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Claus Ibsen commented on CAMEL-19749:
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I am working on adding variable repositories, so you can plugin custom stores.
The name of the variable allows a prefix: which refers to the custom repository.
So you can then use "acme:xxx" to use your own repo.
Out of the box we have "global" for a single shared global that are in-memory
only.
And without any prefix then they are private variables per exchange.
I am not sure if "override" variables makes any sense, eg to use "xxx" and then
lookup on exchange first, and if not then lookup on global. But all of that can
get complex and confusing, as it behaves differently whether a variable exists
or not.
> camel-core - Allow users to use variables in route to store data instead of
> headers
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>
> Key: CAMEL-19749
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CAMEL-19749
> Project: Camel
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: camel-core, eip
> Reporter: Claus Ibsen
> Assignee: Claus Ibsen
> Priority: Major
> Fix For: 4.4.0
>
>
> Users that need to do message transformation in Camel routes may find
> themselves having to store data in headers / claim-check / exchange
> properties from multiple sources before they have all data needed to build a
> response message.
> Today users are doing this in different ways.
> However we may want to introduce variables that users can name and store the
> data, then they can do this more intuitive, like they would do in a
> programming language.
> {code}
> from(kafka("topic1").setVar("customer"))
> .to("sql:get-order-by-cust?id=${var.customer.id}").setVar("order")
> .transform().simple( ' Thank you ${var.customer.name} for ordering
> ${var.order.item}'))
> {code}
> Then you have 2 variables
> - customer
> - order
> Then the variable customer can be used anywhere in Camel like it was a header
> with ${header.xxx} but with ${var.customer} in the simple language etc.
> This proposal needs some more though and design/prototype.
> But this should be done in a way that does not affect regular Camel DSL as it
> is, but with variables then results during routing that usually will be
> override current message body / headers, are stored in variables, that the
> user assign a name and therefore better can understand what the data the
> variable contains are.
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