Hi Looking into MessageSupport getBody(type) I was a bit puzzled with the code vs. the comment
The code below is from a old version, eg 1 year old. This is highly what James have coded. However as I see it we do the opposite, we covert the body = payload first. And if its null then we do on the message itself. James, anyone? PS: The code in trunk is basically the same, except it catches the NoTypeConverterException as we do not return null for non converters. protected <T> T getBody(Class<T> type, Object body) { Exchange e = getExchange(); if (e != null) { TypeConverter converter = e.getContext().getTypeConverter(); T answer = converter.convertTo(type, body); if (answer == null) { // lets first try converting the message itself first // as for some types like InputStream v Reader its more efficient to do the transformation // from the Message itself as its got efficient implementations of them, before trying the // payload answer = converter.convertTo(type, this); } return answer; } return (T)getBody(); } -- Claus Ibsen Apache Camel Committer Open Source Integration: http://fusesource.com Blog: http://davsclaus.blogspot.com/