[DISCUSS] Should camel enforce usage of proper URIs?

[Hadrian Zbarcea]

This is not a new topic, but it looks like it's coming back in different 
threads. Since this is is the underlying issue, I'd suggest clarifying 
this first.

At the core of the issue is a call to 
UnsafeUriCharactersEncoder.encode(uri) in 
DefaultComponent.createEndpoint(String), that made camel silently accept 
invalid URIs and then opened the gates to component writers using URIs 
that are not URIs. This behavior was there from the very beginning of 
Camel. (I refactored that code to introduce a deprecated from start 
preProcessUri that provided a path for cleaning up before camel-3.0, but 
that's a separate topic).

To me, personally, using valid URIs for endpoints is a no-brainer, but I 
sense that there is disagreement on that.

Thoughts?
Hadrian