Error Handler
Camel supports pluggable ErrorHandler
strategies to deal with errors processing an Event Driven Consumer. An alternative is to specify the error handling directly in the DSL using the Exception Clause.
Some current implementations include
These error handlers can be applied in the DSL to an entire set of rules or a specific routing rule as we show in the next examples. Error handling rules are inherited on each routing rule within a single RouteBuilder
Setting global error handlers
The following example shows how you can register a global error handler (in this case using the logging handler)
RouteBuilder builder = new RouteBuilder() {
public void configure() {
errorHandler(loggingErrorHandler("FOO.BAR"));
from("seda:a").to("seda:b");
}
};
Setting error handlers on a specific route
The following example shows how you can register a local error handler; the customized logging handler is only registered for the route from Endpoint seda:a
RouteBuilder builder = new RouteBuilder() {
public void configure() {
from("seda:a").errorHandler(loggingErrorHandler("FOO.BAR")).to("seda:b");
from("seda:b").to("seda:c");
}
};
Default Error Handler
The default error handler is the Dead Letter Channel which is automatically configured for you. You can then configure the specific dead letter endpoint to use either for an entire rule base or a specific rule as shown above. For example
RouteBuilder builder = new RouteBuilder() {
public void configure() {
errorHandler(deadLetterChannel("seda:errors"));
from("seda:a").to("seda:b");
}
};
Overriding default behavior
You can also configure the RedeliveryPolicy
as this example shows
RouteBuilder builder = new RouteBuilder() {
public void configure() {
errorHandler(deadLetterChannel("seda:errors").maximumRedeliveries(2).useExponentialBackOff());
from("seda:a").to("seda:b");
}
};
As of Camel 1.4 you can configure the ExceptionPolicyStrategy
as this example shows
public void configure() throws Exception {
errorHandler(deadLetterChannel().exceptionPolicyStrategy(new MyPolicy()));
exception(MyPolicyException.class)
.maximumRedeliveries(1)
.setHeader(MESSAGE_INFO, "Damm my policy exception")
.to(ERROR_QUEUE);
exception(CamelException.class)
.maximumRedeliveries(3)
.setHeader(MESSAGE_INFO, "Damm a Camel exception")
.to(ERROR_QUEUE);
Using our own strategy MyPolicy we can change the default behavior of Camel with our own code to resolve which ExceptionType
from above should be handling the given thrown exception.
public static class MyPolicy implements ExceptionPolicyStrategy {
public ExceptionType getExceptionPolicy(Map<Class, ExceptionType> exceptionPolicices,
Exchange exchange,
Throwable exception) {
return exceptionPolicices.get(MyPolicyException.class);
}
}
See also Dead Letter Channel for further details.