What do you mean by implementing it as a connector?

On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 2:46 AM, Willem Jiang <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Christian,
>
> It looks like the subscription can be implemented as a connector.
> In this way user could configure the connector as they want and your SNS
> component could be free to this kind detail message.
>
> If you take a look at camel-jms component, it resolve the same question by
> setting the connector to the component.
>
> Just my 2 cents.
>
> Willem
> On 3/16/11 2:48 AM, Christian Müller wrote:
>>
>> Hello dev!
>>
>> I would like to get an advice from your for [1].
>>
>> I would prefer to implement the AWS SNS component to "only" provide a
>> producer (which sends notification to the AWS SNS topic).
>> In my opinion, the user should be responsible to configure the
>> subscription
>> for this topic (outside of Camel with the Amazon management web console).
>> If
>> the user subscribe to an AWS SQS queue, he can use the AWS SQS component
>> and
>> poll this queue (already available since Camel 2.6.0).
>>
>> Another guy would like to make this subscription via Camel, which has in
>> my
>> opinion the following disadvantages:
>> - The Camel SNS consumer acts like the Camel SQS consumer. It polls an AWS
>> SQS queue. Therefore we have some code duplications and two different
>> components which do the same thing.
>> - It's only planned to make a subscription to an AWS SQS queue. If the
>> user
>> would like to make a subscription to HTTP, HTTPS, E-Mail or so, he has to
>> do
>> it still manually.
>> - The subscription functionality will be the biggest part of this
>> component:
>> at startup:
>>    1) Create the AWS SQS queue (mandatory web service call)
>>    2) Query the queue ARN (mandatory web service call)
>>    3) Provide the policy to allow the AWS SNS topic to write into the AWS
>> SQS queue (mandatory web service call) -->  For this, the user has to
>> provide
>> its own policy file in JSON format
>>    4) Make the subscription from the AWS SNS topic to the AWS SQS queue
>> (mandatory web service call)
>> at shutdown:
>>    5) remove the subscription (web service call if required)
>>    6) remove the AWS SQS queue (web service call if required)
>> - I have some bad feelings therefore (which I cannot express good) and I
>> would like to provide a cleaner, easier to use and to maintain component.
>> Also with the absence of functionality which may be only a few people use
>> and a good alternative exists (Amazon management web console to make the
>> subscription)
>>
>> What are your thoughts? Could you please comment this issue?
>>
>>
>> [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CAMEL-3476
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Christian
>>
>
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