I am using camel-bindy version 3.8.0 and I'm hitting a null pointer exception because bindy selects the key-value pair format and ignores the annotated format type and XML-defined format when the model class is annotated with the Spring @Value annotation or if the XML bean definition contains property elements.
Model class: @FixedLengthRecord(length=103) public class MyModelClass { @DataField(pos = 1, length = 2) private String constantField; @DataField(pos = 3, length = 5) private String variableField; ... Constructor and getters/setters } XML model bean definition <bean id="chipsInMessage" class="org.theclearinghouse.isomessaging.model.ChipsInMessage"> <property name="constantField" value="aConstantValue"/> </bean> XML bindy route <route id="inputMarshallingRouter"> <from uri="direct:inputMarshallingModule"/> <marshal> <bindy type="FixedLengthRecord" allowEmptyStream="false" classType="MyModelClass"/> </marshal> <to uri="next:endpoint"/> </route> Exception java.lang.NullPointerException: null at org.apache.camel.dataformat.bindy.util.ConverterUtils.getByteReturn(ConverterUtils.java:46) at org.apache.camel.dataformat.bindy.kvp.BindyKeyValuePairDataFormat.marshal(BindyKeyValuePairDataFormat.java:72) at org.apache.camel.support.processor.MarshalProcessor.process(MarshalProcessor.java:64) at org.apache.camel.processor.errorhandler.RedeliveryErrorHandler$SimpleTask.run(RedeliveryErrorHandler.java:395) at org.apache.camel.impl.engine.DefaultReactiveExecutor$Worker.schedule(DefaultReactiveExecutor.java:148) at org.apache.camel.impl.engine.DefaultReactiveExecutor.scheduleMain(DefaultReactiveExecutor.java:60) at org.apache.camel.processor.Pipeline.process(Pipeline.java:147) at org.apache.camel.impl.engine.CamelInternalProcessor.process(CamelInternalProcessor.java:312) at org.apache.camel.impl.engine.DefaultAsyncProcessorAwaitManager.process(DefaultAsyncProcessorAwaitManager.java:83) at org.apache.camel.support.AsyncProcessorSupport.process(AsyncProcessorSupport.java:41) at org.apache.camel.component.jms.EndpointMessageListener.onMessage(EndpointMessageListener.java:130) at org.springframework.jms.listener.AbstractMessageListenerContainer.doInvokeListener(AbstractMessageListenerContainer.java:736) at org.springframework.jms.listener.AbstractMessageListenerContainer.invokeListener(AbstractMessageListenerContainer.java:696) at org.springframework.jms.listener.AbstractMessageListenerContainer.doExecuteListener(AbstractMessageListenerContainer.java:674) at org.springframework.jms.listener.AbstractPollingMessageListenerContainer.doReceiveAndExecute(AbstractPollingMessageListenerContainer.java:318) at org.springframework.jms.listener.AbstractPollingMessageListenerContainer.receiveAndExecute(AbstractPollingMessageListenerContainer.java:257) at org.springframework.jms.listener.DefaultMessageListenerContainer$AsyncMessageListenerInvoker.invokeListener(DefaultMessageListenerContainer.java:1189) at org.springframework.jms.listener.DefaultMessageListenerContainer$AsyncMessageListenerInvoker.executeOngoingLoop(DefaultMessageListenerContainer.java:1179) at org.springframework.jms.listener.DefaultMessageListenerContainer$AsyncMessageListenerInvoker.run(DefaultMessageListenerContainer.java:1076) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1149) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:624) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748) I'm debugging with Intellij IDEA on Windows 10 Thank you for any help with this This e-mail may contain information that is privileged or confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete the e-mail and notify us immediately.