Thanks for bringing up this topic Ioannis.
On 4 January 2012 09:24, Ioannis Canellos <ioca...@gmail.com> wrote: > As camel component list grows, I can see a lot of components doing similar > things, but every component does things in its own way. A very common > example are key/value components, here are some: > > camel-cache > camel-hazelcast > camel-krati > camel-solr > etc. While writing some of the camel components recently I also had hard time figuring out what is the preferred way of doing these tasks, because there is no consistency among existing components. > > Each of the components listed above, behaves differently. Each component > uses its own headers. Some components support key/values in the query > string, some others don't and even when they do the names of the query > parameters might be different. > > The result is lack transparency/conformity. I think that it would be a > great improvement to abstract some of the key/value concepts (a > KeyValueEndpoint/KeyValueProducer/KeyValueConsumer maybe?) and align those > components so that they all work in a similar fashion. In addition to abstracting these components, having some guidelines for consistent naming of the header keys and URI options would also be helpful I believe. It seems like the current convention is to name headers like: Camel + ComponentName+ HeaderName but it is not used this way everywhere. my 2p Bilgin > > Some of the components above also use serialization internally in order to > serialize/deserialize key & value (e.g. krati/hbase). For this case data > formats are not a really good fit (imho). I think that it would make sense > to have an abstractions serializer that could be passed to an endpoint that > supports pluggable serialization. > > What do you think? > > -- > *Ioannis Canellos* > * > FuseSource <http://fusesource.com> > > ** > Blog: http://iocanel.blogspot.com > ** > Apache Karaf <http://karaf.apache.org/> Committer & PMC > Apache Camel <http://camel.apache.org/> Committer > Apache ServiceMix <http://servicemix.apache.org/> Committer > Apache Gora <http://incubator.apache.org/gora/> Committer > Apache DirectMemory <http://incubator.apache.org/directmemory/> Committer > *
