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Routing Slip EIP Pattern in Apache Camel using example

In previous tutorials EIP patterns using Apache Camel and Splitter and Aggregator pattern we have tried to understand various EIP patterns.
In this tutorial we will try to understand the Routing Slip Enterprise Integration Patterns using Camel Example.

Apache Camel Routing Slip EIP Pattern Tutorial

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This tutorial is explained in the below Youtube Video.

Lets Begin

We will create Eclipse maven project as follows-

Apache Camel Routing Slip EIP Pattern Example
Our pom file will be as follows-
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
	xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
	<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
	<groupId>com.javainuse</groupId>
	<artifactId>camel-routingslip</artifactId>
	<version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>

	<dependencies>
		<dependency>
			<groupId>org.apache.camel</groupId>
			<artifactId>camel-core</artifactId>
			<version>2.13.0</version>
		</dependency>
	</dependencies>
</project>
Next we create a class to construct a Camel Routes. The Routing Slip from the EIP patterns allows you to route a message consecutively through a series of processing steps where the sequence of steps is not known at design time and can vary for each message. In the below example we set the routing slip to execute the flow in the following sequence -
route3->route2->route1
package com.javainuse;

import org.apache.camel.Exchange;
import org.apache.camel.Processor;
import org.apache.camel.builder.RouteBuilder;

public class SimpleRouteBuilder extends RouteBuilder {

	@Override
	public void configure() throws Exception {
		from("file:C:/inbox?noop=true").split().tokenize("\n").process(new Processor() {
			public void process(Exchange exchange) {
				String body = exchange.getIn().getBody().toString();
				String response;
				if (body.contains("javainuse1")) {
					// the following routes will be called sequentially
					response = "direct:route1,direct:route2,direct:route3";
				} else
					// the following routes will be called sequentially
					response = "direct:route3,direct:route2,direct:route1";
					//set the route slip message in the header
				exchange.getIn().setHeader("myRoutingSlipHeader", response);
			}
		}).routingSlip(header("myRoutingSlipHeader"));

		from("direct:route1").process(new Processor() {
			public void process(Exchange exchange) {
				String body = exchange.getIn().getBody().toString();
				body = body + " in route 1";
				System.out.println(body);
				exchange.getOut().setBody(body);
			}
		});

		from("direct:route2").process(new Processor() {
			public void process(Exchange exchange) {
				String body = exchange.getIn().getBody().toString();
				body = body + " in route 2";
				System.out.println(body);
				exchange.getOut().setBody(body);
			}
		});

		from("direct:route3").process(new Processor() {
			public void process(Exchange exchange) {
				String body = exchange.getIn().getBody().toString();
				body = body + " in route 3";
				exchange.getOut().setBody(body);
				System.out.println(body);
			}
		});
	}
}



When Camel is started, it creates a CamelContext object that contains the definition of the Route to be started. Below we create default camel context and load the routes created in SimpleRouteBuilder.
package com.javainuse;

import org.apache.camel.CamelContext;
import org.apache.camel.impl.DefaultCamelContext;

public class MainApp {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        SimpleRouteBuilder routeBuilder = new SimpleRouteBuilder();
        CamelContext ctx = new DefaultCamelContext();
        try {
            ctx.addRoutes(routeBuilder);
            ctx.start();
            Thread.sleep(5 * 60 * 1000);
            ctx.stop();
        }
        catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }

    }
}
Next run the MainApp class as a java application-
Apache Camel Routing Slip EIP Pattern

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