We've been using the Camel HTTP4 component for a while now, but today we
wanted to call a HTTP endpoint and pass some text as input to the endpoint.
But when we use 'exchange.getIn().setBody("Some input string...");' we got a
very unhelpful NullPointerException (i.e. no detail information, no stack
trace). The very simple code below illustrates the problem.
To work out what was going on we had to debug into the Camel source code. We
found that the problem was the fact we passed a String as the message body
instead of an InputStream, so simply wrapping our String in a stream worked
fine. So my question is simply, why doesn't Camel provide a more helpful
error message to indicate the problem (surely it's a common newbie mistake
to provide the text body of a HTTP request as a simple String?!)? Also I
would have thought the automatic type conversions in Camel would have kicked
in to convert our String to an InputStream....???
package com.cameltesting.services.httptest;
import org.apache.camel.Exchange;
import org.apache.camel.impl.DefaultExchange;
import org.apache.camel.test.junit4.CamelTestSupport;
import org.junit.Assert;
import org.junit.Test;
public class HttpTest extends CamelTestSupport {
@Test
public void testReport() throws Exception {
Exchange exchange = new DefaultExchange(context());
Exchange response = context.createProducerTemplate().send(
"http4://www.google.com?q=HelloWorld", exchange);
Assert.assertFalse(response.isFailed());
exchange = new DefaultExchange(context());
exchange.getIn().setBody("Some input string...");
response = context.createProducerTemplate().send(
"http4://www.google.com?q=HelloWorld", exchange);
Assert.assertTrue(response.isFailed());
Throwable exception = response.getException();
System.out.println("Exception: " + exception.getLocalizedMessage() +
"\nCause: " + exception.getCause());
}
}
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