No, sortBy appears to act on files rather than file contents. The examples under the file component include sortBy=file:name and sortBy=reverse:file:name.
sortBy uses the File Language (http://camel.apache.org/file-language.html), which includes "file:modified" as an option for specifying the file's last modified date. Don On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 1:29 PM, johncarlguthrie <johncarlguth...@gmail.com> wrote: > Is there a way to determine which file is picked up by a route first when > there are several files in a directory? I looked into sortby and Sort, but > those seem to be for arranging the content of a single message/file, which > is not what I want. I am working on a Spring/Camel application that picks up > any file put into a certain directory for processing. The order of > processing is important, we need to always process the oldest file > (timestamp oldest) first. Any advice is appreciated. > > -- > View this message in context: > http://camel.465427.n5.nabble.com/Way-to-have-Camel-process-files-in-timestamp-order-tp4591558p4591558.html > Sent from the Camel - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >
