That sounds like an interesting approach. Are you using a ProducerTemplate then in the validation bean?
On 1 August 2016 at 10:38, Brad Johnson <brad.john...@mediadriver.com> wrote: > It's funny but I was just wrestling with this issue. I decided in my > particular case not to use the .validate() but instead to use the > .fliter().method("MyBeanValidator") which does a Boolean whether to > continue or not. But in the validator I have endpoints injected for error > handling. In this case I'm firing off emails to administrators. But if > you can inject an endpoint then it can be used for pretty much anything. > > That way I'm not slinging exceptions and setting retries. I find that > mechanism rather clunky and better for a general safety net for the truly > unexpected than for other errors. > > Obviously Camel has a lot of different ways to do things so it's pretty > much a matter of taste I think. > > On Mon, Aug 1, 2016 at 10:03 AM, Matt Sicker <boa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I have a common pattern right now of adding .validate() to several REST > DSL > > params since the .required() swagger DSL appears to be a suggestion and > not > > a validation. Since my REST DSL is spread across several routes, I'd like > > to use some sort of shared error handling. Now I see there are two good > > methods here that I'm debating between: > > > > 1. Use onException() in an abstract class and have all my RouteBuilders > > inherit from that in order to reuse the same onException() block (which > is > > somewhat annoying because if you use the XML DSL instead, the same > > <onException/> applies to the whole CamelContext apparently, but not when > > you use the Java DSL). > > > > 2. Export an ErrorHandlerFactory service bean and reuse that in each > > RouteBuilder on the specific routes that have a .validate(). > > > > I'm using Camel 2.16.2 if that matters. > > > > -- > > Matt Sicker <boa...@gmail.com> > > > -- Matt Sicker <boa...@gmail.com>