When only asking the body for its length you lose the length of properties, headers and attachements. (Especially when retrieving emails the last could be big ;)
Jan > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: Jean-Baptiste Onofré [mailto:j...@nanthrax.net] > Gesendet: Samstag, 23. November 2013 12:01 > An: users@camel.apache.org > Betreff: Re: [Feature Enhancement] Camel body size > > Hi Matt, > > What do you think about something like ${body.size} or ${body.length} ? > > Regards > JB > > On 11/22/2013 09:57 PM, Matt Pavlovich wrote: > > Hello- > > > > I opened a ticket to request adding a feature for components to > provide a Body size to the Exchange that could be used by Simple, or > set as a header. > > > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CAMEL-6984 > > > > I see it solving a couple things: > > > > 1. Provide throughput metrics > > 2. Route based on message sizing > > > > What does the community think about this? Any suggestions on > improvements/features or implementation approaches? > > > > Thanks, > > Matt Pavlovich > > > > -- > Jean-Baptiste Onofré > jbono...@apache.org > http://blog.nanthrax.net > Talend - http://www.talend.com