On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 2:58 PM, Paul Phillips <[email protected]> wrote:
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> Ok great.
>
> From this I've now realised that what I really want to do is grab a bunch of
> stuff from the incoming xml and store it as properties on the message for
> future use in the route and then I don't really need the original xml
> anymore.
>
> Now I could write some code like this:
>
> DocumentBuilderFactory domFactory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
> domFactory.setNamespaceAware(true); // never forget this!
> DocumentBuilder builder = domFactory.newDocumentBuilder();
> Document doc = builder.parse(theIncomingXML);
>
> XPathFactory factory = XPathFactory.newInstance();
> XPath xpath = factory.newXPath();
> XPathExpression expr
> = xpath.compile("//book[author='Neal Stephenson']/title/text()");
>
> Object result = expr.evaluate(doc, XPathConstants.NODESET);
>
> and store the result objects as properties on the message.
>
> Is there an "easier" way to do this with Camel? If I am in a class that
> implements Processor, in the process method, can I access the xpath "helper"
> stuff that camel provides so that I can just (almost) say
>
> String interestingText = message.xpath("//book[author='Neal
> Stephenson']/title/text()")
>
> and it'll handle the parsing etc for me?
Yeah as you work in a Processor where you have the Exchange object handy
Something like this. You may need to tweak it a bit.
String interestingText = xpath("//book[author='Neal
Stephenson']/title/text()").evaluate(exchange, String.class);
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> James.Strachan wrote:
>>
>> 2009/10/23 Paul Phillips <[email protected]>:
>>>
>>> Hi there
>>>
>>> bit of a beginner question here.
>>>
>>> I have a situation where I want to
>>>
>>> - get some xml from a jms queue
>>> - send an id contained in the xml to a custom component i have written
>>> (the
>>> body of the request should be a string that looks like this: "ID=blah",
>>> so I
>>> use a bean to grab the id using xpath and change the body of the
>>> exchange)
>>> - this will return a message with a body that looks like "MATCHED=TRUE"
>>> or
>>> something
>>> - if MATCHED=TRUE then I want to send some xml to a different endpoint.
>>
>> BTW you can do the above like this...
>>
>> public class MyBean {
>>
>> @Consume(uri="activemq:SomeQueue")
>> pubilc void onXml(@XPath("/foo/ID") String myID, Document restOfBody) {
>> // return the transformed payload
>> return "MATCHED=TRUE"
>> }
>> }
>>
>> Notice Camel can do the XPath for you and inject the ID parameter to
>> your transformer method (myID) - also notice the lack of any
>> middleware APIs etc.
>>
>> for more details see
>> http://camel.apache.org/pojo-consuming.html
>>
>> --
>> James
>> -------
>> http://macstrac.blogspot.com/
>>
>> Open Source Integration
>> http://fusesource.com/
>>
>>
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