What version of Camel do you use?
On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 9:47 PM, pmcb55 <mcbenne...@dnb.com> wrote:
> We've been using the Camel HTTP4 component for a while now, but today we
> wanted to call a HTTP endpoint and pass some text as input to the endpoint.
> But when we use 'exchange.getIn().setBody("Some input string...");' we got a
> very unhelpful NullPointerException (i.e. no detail information, no stack
> trace). The very simple code below illustrates the problem.
>
> To work out what was going on we had to debug into the Camel source code. We
> found that the problem was the fact we passed a String as the message body
> instead of an InputStream, so simply wrapping our String in a stream worked
> fine. So my question is simply, why doesn't Camel provide a more helpful
> error message to indicate the problem (surely it's a common newbie mistake
> to provide the text body of a HTTP request as a simple String?!)? Also I
> would have thought the automatic type conversions in Camel would have kicked
> in to convert our String to an InputStream....???
>
>
> package com.cameltesting.services.httptest;
>
> import org.apache.camel.Exchange;
> import org.apache.camel.impl.DefaultExchange;
> import org.apache.camel.test.junit4.CamelTestSupport;
> import org.junit.Assert;
> import org.junit.Test;
>
> public class HttpTest extends CamelTestSupport {
> @Test
> public void testReport() throws Exception {
>
> Exchange exchange = new DefaultExchange(context());
> Exchange response = context.createProducerTemplate().send(
> "http4://www.google.com?q=HelloWorld", exchange);
> Assert.assertFalse(response.isFailed());
>
> exchange = new DefaultExchange(context());
> exchange.getIn().setBody("Some input string...");
> response = context.createProducerTemplate().send(
> "http4://www.google.com?q=HelloWorld", exchange);
> Assert.assertTrue(response.isFailed());
> Throwable exception = response.getException();
> System.out.println("Exception: " + exception.getLocalizedMessage() +
> "\nCause: " + exception.getCause());
> }
> }
>
>
>
>
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