XPath in camel 3.0

[Jimmy Praet (KSZ-BCSS/eHEALTH)]

Hi,

We are upgrading our applications to camel 3.0. We were using the xpath() 
methods from RouteBuilder in our code as follows:

    .setProperty("postIntegrationCheck", 
xpath("//version[.='PostIntegrationCheck']").booleanResult())
    .setProperty("ssinResult", xpath("/ssinResult").nodeResult())

But in camel 3.0, the xpath() method of RouteBuilder returns a ValueBuilder 
instead of an XPathBuilder, and the .xyzResult() methods are no longer 
available there.

Is the recommended approach to specify the type as follows:

    .setProperty("postIntegrationCheck", 
xpath("//version[.='PostIntegrationCheck']", Boolean.class))
    .setProperty("ssinResult", xpath("/ssinResult", Node.class))

Or is it better to use the XPathBuilder from camel-xpath.jar as follows:

    .setProperty("postIntegrationCheck", 
XPathBuilder.xpath("//version[.='PostIntegrationCheck']").booleanResult())
    .setProperty("ssinResult", XPathBuilder.xpath("/ssinResult").nodeResult())

Unfortunately the latter approach cannot be simplified with a static import, 
because the instance methods of RouteBuilder take precedence.

Kind regards,
Jimmy