CronScheduledRoutePolicy

Available as of Camel version 2.6

CronScheduledRoutePolicy is a ScheduledRoutePolicy that facilitates route activation, de-activation, suspension and resumption of routes based on a Quartz CronTrigger.

Maven users will need to add a camel-quartz dependency to their pom.xml to avail this capability.

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.apache.camel</groupId>
    <artifactId>camel-quartz</artifactId>
    <version>x.x.x</version>
    <!-- use the same version as your Camel core version -->
</dependency>

<bean id="myStartPolicy" class="org.apache.camel.routepolicy.quartz2.CronScheduledRoutePolicy">
  <!-- start every 5min from monday to saturday -->
  <property name="routeStartTime" value="0 0/5 * ? * 1-6 *" />
</bean>

How it works

In order to use a CronScheduledRoutePolicy it is necessary to instantiate an object of the type org.apache.camel.routepolicy.quartz.CronScheduledRoutePolicy.

In order to perform a route operation at a given time the following information must be provided.

• Starting a route

  Parameter Name	Type	Default Value	Description
  routeStartTime	String		the initial scheduled Date and time as a Cron Expression for route start

• Stopping a route

  Parameter Name	Type	Default Value	Description
  routeStopTime	String		the initial scheduled Date and time as a Cron Expression for route stop
  routeStopGracePeriod	int	10 seconds	the time period to wait before initiating graceful route stop
  routeStopTimeUnit	long	TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS	the time unit for the grace period expressed as java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit

• Suspending a route

  Parameter Name	Type	Default Value	Description
  routeSuspendTime	String		the initial scheduled Date and time as a Cron Expression for route suspension

• Resuming a route

  Parameter Name	Type	Default Value	Description
  routeResumeTime	String		the initial scheduled Date and time as a Cron Expression for route resumption

Once the org.apache.camel.routepolicy.quartz.CronScheduledRoutePolicy is created it can be wired into the camel route as follows

Configuring the policy

• In Java

 
CronScheduledRoutePolicy startPolicy = new CronScheduledRoutePolicy();
startPolicy.setRouteStartTime("*/3 * * * * ?");
                
from("direct:start")
    .routeId("testRoute").routePolicy(startPolicy).noAutoStartup()
    .to("mock:success");

• Using Spring

<bean id="startPolicy" class="org.apache.camel.routepolicy.quartz.CronScheduledRoutePolicy">
    <property name="routeStartTime" value="*/3 * * * * ?"/>
</bean>
    
<camelContext xmlns="http://camel.apache.org/schema/spring">
    <route id="testRoute" routePolicyRef="startPolicy" autoStartup="false">
        <from uri="direct:start"/>
        <to uri="mock:success"/>
    </route>
</camelContext>

See Also

ScheduledRoutePolicy - for information on policy based scheduling capability for camel routes
RoutePolicy - for information on route policies in general
Quartz -for more information on the quartz component