Hi, I just created a JIRA[1] of it, we should let user set the default routing key on the producer.
[1]https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CAMEL-6952 -- Willem Jiang Red Hat, Inc. Web: http://www.redhat.com Blog: http://willemjiang.blogspot.com (http://willemjiang.blogspot.com/) (English) http://jnn.iteye.com (http://jnn.javaeye.com/) (Chinese) Twitter: willemjiang Weibo: 姜宁willem On Saturday, November 9, 2013 at 12:00 AM, Alex Sherwin wrote: > The code and docs seem pretty clear.. > > The consumer side makes sense, being able to set the Routing Key for > binding and optional Queue name... > > But why must the producer side set an Exchange header to set the routing > key? Doesn't this make it very difficult to write fluent routes.. for > example, with JMS or ActiveMQ you could do: > > from("direct:start point").process(dosomething).to("activemq:out queue") > > There does not appear to be a simple equivalent for RabbitMQ at this time, > instead having to resort to writing code to set a routing key on the > exchange and then set the headers, which is cumbersome and tightly couples > routing logic directly into the messages themselves, rather then letting > the routes define it > > Unless I'm missing something obvious here.. seems like it will be difficult > to use like this. > > I would have expected to be able to do: > > .to("rabbitmq://server/exchange?routingKey=abc) > > > -- > Alexander Sherwin
