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Camel InOut ExchangePattern with Activiti

mitchworld — Wed, 27 May 2015 18:36:59 GMT

Hi there,I need help with the following setup:Camel manages a CXF SOAP/HTTP web service endpoint for incoming requests (orders).When a order-request comes in, Camel activates the corresponding route.Once the corresponding camel route is called, I want Camel to delegate the request processing to an a

Re: Camel InOut ExchangePattern with Activiti

mitchworld — Wed, 27 May 2015 18:42:12 GMT

Here's the code that I am using.


<camelContext>
  <route>
    <from uri="cxf:bean:mySoapServiceEndpoint" />
    <to uri="activiti:myProcess" />
  </route>
</camelContext>

Re: Camel InOut ExchangePattern with Activiti

mitchworld — Thu, 28 May 2015 06:08:00 GMT

Answering my own question:
Looking at the activiti implementation code, Activiti doesn't set the body of the output message. So the Camel activiti-component itself doesn't support the InOut pattern.
To workaround this, after executing the Activiti process from Camel, you have to explicitly set the body content by adding something like:


…
    <to uri="acticiti:myProcess" />
    <setBody>…</setBody>