I have got it working. By trial and error. I am not sure why I couldn't find a working solution for Blueprint out there. Usually indicates to me that I was asking the wrong question. Seems that the # in the URI is the crucial element so that a reference to the bean is being passed to the component and not a string.
<blueprint xmlns="http://www.osgi.org/xmlns/blueprint/v1.0.0"; xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"; xsi:schemaLocation=" http://www.osgi.org/xmlns/blueprint/v1.0.0 http://www.osgi.org/xmlns/blueprint/v1.0.0/blueprint.xsd http://camel.apache.org/schema/blueprint http://camel.apache.org/schema/spring/camel-blueprint.xsd";> <bean id="myStringSerializer" class="org.springframework.data.redis.serializer.StringRedisSerializer"/> <routeContext id="camel-redis-route-context" xmlns="http://camel.apache.org/schema/blueprint";> <route id="camel-redis-route"> <from uri="direct:redis"/> <log loggingLevel="INFO" message="Just about to call redis with ${in.headers}"/> <to uri="spring-redis://{{redis.host}}:{{redis.port}}?serializer=#myStringSerializer" id="callRedisWithHeaders"/> </route> </routeContext> </blueprint> Hope this helps someone else. -- View this message in context: http://camel.465427.n5.nabble.com/Repost-Unable-to-configure-component-spring-redis-RedisTemplate-with-Blueprint-XML-tp5784053p5784063.html Sent from the Camel - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
