Heck, I'm just glad to know that I'm not way off base! I'm a bit new to camel (at least in the "real world"), so I'm glad I'm not doing something completely crazy. :) Thanks for the sanity check, Hadrian.
On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 11:10 AM, Hadrian Zbarcea <hzbar...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi James, > > I had a similar need not long ago and two things are needed. One is a > wiretap, to do the logging while processing goes uninterrupted on the main > flow. > > The second is directly related to your question. I ended up using just the > in Message, thus losing the properties, but that was good enough for my > scenario. > > For the second part of your scenario, yes that would work, but then you'd > probably have to process the exchange from the body of the message somehow. > > I hope this helps, > Hadrian > > > On 05/24/2012 10:13 AM, James Carman wrote: >> >> Fellow Camel riders, >> >> First a little background about what I'm trying to do: >> >> We want to introduce "auditing" (looks similar to BAM) to our camel >> infrastructure. The idea would be that we want to be able to see >> exactly what the exchange looks like at certain points in the route. >> So, my thinking was that I'd take a "snapshot" of the exchange in some >> way and place that on a JMS queue for some other process to pick up >> and write the pertinent information into the database. >> >> Now, my question: >> >> How exactly would you guys go about it? I could introduce a new data >> structure that I can put on the queue. Or, is there perhaps something >> already there that I can lean on. For example, could I do: >> >> exchange.getIn().setBody(exchange.copy()); >> >> Would that make it through JMS correctly? Meaning, could I have >> another route on the other side of my queue that does: >> >> Exchange original = exchange.getIn().getBody(Exchange.class); >> >> Would that work? >> >> Perhaps I'm going about this all wrong? :) >> >> Any advice would be greatly appreciated. >> >> Thanks, >> >> James