OnCompletion
Camel has this concept of a Unit of Work that encompass the Exchange. The unit of work among others supports synchronization callbacks that are invoked when the Exchange is complete. The callback API is defined in org.apache.camel.spi.Synchronization. From Camel 2.14: we have an extended synchronization org.apache.camel.spi.SynchronizationRouteAware that have callbacks for route events.
Getting the UnitOfWorkYou can get hold of the org.apache.camel.spi.UnitOfWork from org.apache.camel.Exchange with the method getUnitOfWork().
In Camel 2.0 we have added DSL for these callbacks using the new onCompletion DSL name.
onCompletion supports the following features:
- Scope: global and/or per route (route scope override all global scope).
- Multiple global scope.
- Triggered either always, only if completed with success, or only if failed.
onWhen predicate to only trigger in certain situations.- Camel 2.14: Mode: to define whether to run either before or after route consumer writes response back to callee (if its
InOut). - Camel 2.14: Whether to run async or sync (use a thread pool or not).
From Camel 2.14: onCompletion has been modified to support running the completion task in either synchronous or asynchronous mode (using a thread pool) and also whether to run before or after the route consumer is done. The reason is to give more flexibility. For example to specify to run synchronous and before the route consumer is done, which allows to modify the exchange before the consumer writes back any response to the callee. You can use this to for example add customer headers, or send to a log to log the response message, etc.
Changes from Camel 2.14 onwardsThe onCompletion has changed defaults and behavior from Camel 2.14: it now runs
- Runs synchronously without any thread pool
In Camel 2.13 the defaults were
- Runs asynchronous using a thread pool
Camel 2.13 or older - On completion runs in separate threadThe onCompletion runs in a separate thread in parallel with the original route. It is therefore not intended to influence the outcome of the original route. The idea for on completion is to spin off a new thread to e.g., send logs to a central log database, send an email, send alerts to a monitoring system, store a copy of the result message etc.
Therefore if you want to do some work that influence the original route, then do not use onCompletion for that.
If you use the UnitOfWork API as mentioned in the top of this page, then you can register a Synchronization callback on the Exchange which is executed in the original route. That way allows you to do some custom code when the route is completed; this is how custom components can enlist on completion services which they need, e.g., the File component does that for work that moves/deletes the original file etc.onCompletion With Route Scope
The onCompletion DSL allows you to add custom routes/processors when the original Exchange is complete. Camel spin off a copy of the Exchange and routes it in a separate thread, kinda like a Wire Tap. This allows the original thread to continue while the onCompletion route is running concurrently. We decided for this model as we did not want the onCompletion route to interfere with the original route.
Only one onCompletion supported by route scopeYou can only have one onCompletion clause per route. At context scoped level it's possible to have many. And notice that when you use a route scoped onCompletion then any context scoped are disabled for that given route.
{snippet:id=e1|lang=java|url=camel/trunk/camel-core/src/test/java/org/apache/camel/processor/OnCompletionTest.java}By default the onCompletion will be triggered when the Exchange is complete and regardless if the Exchange completed with success or with an failure (such as an Exception was thrown). You can limit the trigger to only occur onCompleteOnly or by onFailureOnly as shown below:{snippet:id=e1|lang=java|url=camel/trunk/camel-core/src/test/java/org/apache/camel/processor/OnCompletionOnFailureOnlyTest.java}You can identify if the Exchange is an onCompletion Exchange as Camel will add the property Exchange.ON_COMPLETION with a boolean value of true when it spin offs the onCompletion Exchange.
Using onCompletion from Spring DSL
The onCompletion is defined like this with Spring DSL:{snippet:id=e1|lang=xml|url=camel/trunk/components/camel-spring/src/test/resources/org/apache/camel/spring/processor/SpringOnCompletionTest.xml}And the onCompleteOnly and onFailureOnly is defined as a boolean attribute on the <onCompletion> tag so the failure example would be:{snippet:id=e1|lang=xml|url=camel/trunk/components/camel-spring/src/test/resources/org/apache/camel/spring/processor/SpringOnCompletionOnFailureOnlyTest.xml}
onCompletion With Global Scope
This works just like the route scope except from the fact that they are defined globally. An example below:{snippet:id=e1|lang=java|url=camel/trunk/camel-core/src/test/java/org/apache/camel/processor/OnCompletionGlobalTest.java}
Using onCompletion from Spring DSL
This works just like the route scope except from the fact that they are defined globally. An example below:{snippet:id=e1|lang=xml|url=camel/trunk/components/camel-spring/src/test/resources/org/apache/camel/spring/processor/SpringOnCompletionGlobalTest.xml}
Route scope override Global scopeIf an onCompletion is defined in a route, it overrides all global scoped and thus its only the route scoped that are used. The globally scoped ones are never used.
Using onCompletion with onWhen Predicate
As other DSL in Camel you can attach a Predicate to the onCompletion so it only triggers in certain conditions, when the predicate matches. For example to only trigger if the message body contains the word Hello we can do like:{snippet:id=e1|lang=java|url=camel/trunk/camel-core/src/test/java/org/apache/camel/processor/OnCompletionWhenTest.java}
Using onCompletion With or Without a Threadpool
Available as of Camel 2.14
onCompletion will from Camel 2.14: not use thread pool by default. To use thread pool then either set a executorService or set parallelProcessing to true.
For example in Java DSL:
javaonCompletion().parallelProcessing()
.to("mock:before")
.delay(1000)
.setBody(simple("OnComplete:${body}"));And in XML DSL:
xml<onCompletion parallelProcessing="true">
<to uri="before"/>
<delay><constant>1000</constant></delay>
<setBody><simple>OnComplete:${body}</simple></setBody>
</onCompletion>You can also refer to a specific thread pool to be used, using the executorServiceRef option:
xml<onCompletion executorServiceRef="myThreadPool">
<to uri="before"/>
<delay><constant>1000</constant></delay>
<setBody><simple>OnComplete:${body}</simple></setBody>
</onCompletion>
Using onCompletion to Run Before Route Consumer Sends Back Response to Callee
Available as of Camel 2.14
onCompletion supports two modes
AfterConsumer - Default mode which runs after the consumer is done.BeforeConsumer - Runs before the consumer is done, and before the consumer writes back response to the callee.
The AfterConsumer mode is the default mode which is the same behavior as in older Camel releases.
The new BeforeConsumer mode is used to run onCompletion before the consumer writes its response back to the callee (if in InOut mode). This allows the onCompletion to modify the Exchange, such as adding special headers, or to log the Exchange as a response logger etc.
For example to always add a "created by" header you use modeBeforeConsumer() as shown below:
java.onCompletion().modeBeforeConsumer()
.setHeader("createdBy", constant("Someone"))
.end()
And in XML DSL you set the mode attribute to BeforeConsumer:
xml<onCompletion mode="BeforeConsumer">
<setHeader headerName="createdBy">
<constant>Someone</constant>
</setHeader>
</onCompletion>See Also
