Yeah that would certainly work, but would be less ideal than an arbitrary
property map. I think I'd prefer to manage it myself the way I described in
my work-around.
On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 4:35 PM, Hadrian Zbarcea <hzbar...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Kinda. What about convention over configuration and have the color in the
> route id (e.g. id="red.something" and if id.startsWith("red.") then garbage
> collect. Also keep in mind that the RouteBuilder creates just a model, not
> the route themselves.
>
> Hadrian
>
> On 04/04/2012 03:53 PM, Jeff Segal wrote:
>
>> Sure. I have a system which manages Routes dynamically, which requires
>> some
>> garbage collection to iterate through all Routes in the CamelContext and
>> remove any which are deemed no longer necessary. For the sake of
>> discussion, let's say that I wanted to associate a "color" property with
>> all Routes built by a particular RouteBuilder. Later on, I want the
>> garbage
>> collection algorithm to remove "red" Routes after running for 30 minutes
>> and leave other Routes alone.
>>
>> The easiest way to accomplish that would be to call a method from the
>> RouteBuilder which adds a "color" property to each Route it creates, which
>> I'd then inspect later on. However, the only method I have available to me
>> is RouteDefinition.setProperty(), which sets properties on the Exchanges
>> created by the Route, not on the Route itself.
>>
>> My current work-around is to maintain my own Route-Properties mapping in
>> memory.
>>
>> Does this make sense?
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 3:15 PM, Raul Kripalani<r...@fusesource.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Jeff,
>>>
>>> Could you explain your use case a bit further? It is not clear what you
>>> ultimately want to achieve.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Raúl.
>>>
>>> On 4 April 2012 18:35, Jeff Segal<jeffrey.se...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Is there any facility to add arbitrary properties to Routes rather than
>>>> just Exchanges from within a RouteBuilder? I noticed that there are a
>>>> few
>>>> internally managed properties automatically added to each Route (id,
>>>> parent, group) but I could not find a hook to set additional ones from a
>>>> RouteBuilder.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Jeff
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
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