It's not only the velocity-tools provided classes what the user can use here. We have a custom class with some transformations (e.g. transform the ISO two letter country code - e.g. "DE" - to the full name - e.g. "Deutschland"). May be adding some words how to use this functionality inside Camel on our WIKI page is sufficient? I didn't like the idea to change the code "only" to autodetect the velocity-tools provided utillity classes - my 0,02 $...
Best, Christian On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 8:44 AM, Claus Ibsen <claus.ib...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 8:59 PM, Reuben Garrett <reubengarr...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Ramesh, > > > > I'm not as knowledgeable as the committers, but it looks like you're > trying > > to attach an instance of the EscapeTool class to a header in your > Exchange > > and then invoke it later on inside the Velocity template. But when you > use > > a <constant/> expression in the Spring DSL, it just returns the text > within > > the <constant/> tags as a String. > > > > Christian's example in the Java DSL seems closer because it's actually > > attaching a Class object (rather than the name of the class). Maybe if > you > > somehow instantiate an instance of EscapeTool and attach it to the > > exchange, you'll then be able to invoke it. The Java DSL might be more > > direct for this, but I'll bet there's an easy way to do it in the Spring > > DSL, too. > > > > That being said, I don't know much about Velocity. However the > <constant/> > > expression doesn't seem to be what you want. > > > > Yeah in XML DSLs you can use <ref> to refer to a bean to lookup and use. > http://camel.apache.org/ref-language.html > > However maybe we can auto detect the velocity tools and provide it out > of the box? > > > > Claus, Christian - am I on the right track? > > > > ~ RNPG > > > > On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 11:15, ramesri <ramesh.sridha...@ihg.com> wrote: > > > >> Sorry, I set the header as and no luck. > >> > >> <setHeader headerName="esc"> > >> > >> > >> <constant>org.apache.velocity.tools.generic.EscapeTool.class</constant> > >> > >> </setHeader> > >> > >> > >> Thanks > >> Ramesh > >> > > > > -- > Claus Ibsen > ----------------- > FuseSource > Email: cib...@fusesource.com > Web: http://fusesource.com > Twitter: davsclaus, fusenews > Blog: http://davsclaus.blogspot.com/ > Author of Camel in Action: http://www.manning.com/ibsen/ >
