JOLT :: Apache Camel

URI format

jolt:specName[?options]

Where specName is the classpath-local URI of the specification to invoke; or the complete URL of the remote specification (e.g.: file://folder/myfile.vm).

Configuring Options

Camel components are configured on two separate levels:

component level
endpoint level

Configuring Component Options

At the component level, you set general and shared configurations that are, then, inherited by the endpoints. It is the highest configuration level.

For example, a component may have security settings, credentials for authentication, urls for network connection and so forth.

Some components only have a few options, and others may have many. Because components typically have pre-configured defaults that are commonly used, then you may often only need to configure a few options on a component; or none at all.

You can configure components using:

the Component DSL.
in a configuration file (application.properties, *.yaml files, etc).
directly in the Java code.

Configuring Endpoint Options

You usually spend more time setting up endpoints because they have many options. These options help you customize what you want the endpoint to do. The options are also categorized into whether the endpoint is used as a consumer (from), as a producer (to), or both.

Configuring endpoints is most often done directly in the endpoint URI as path and query parameters. You can also use the Endpoint DSL and DataFormat DSL as a type safe way of configuring endpoints and data formats in Java.

A good practice when configuring options is to use Property Placeholders.

Property placeholders provide a few benefits:

They help prevent using hardcoded urls, port numbers, sensitive information, and other settings.
They allow externalizing the configuration from the code.
They help the code to become more flexible and reusable.

The following two sections list all the options, firstly for the component followed by the endpoint.

Component Options

The JOLT component supports 4 options, which are listed below.

Name	Description	Default	Type
allowTemplateFromHeader (producer)	Whether to allow to use resource template from header or not (default false). Enabling this allows to specify dynamic templates via message header. However this can be seen as a potential security vulnerability if the header is coming from a malicious user, so use this with care.	false	boolean
lazyStartProducer (producer)	Whether the producer should be started lazy (on the first message). By starting lazy you can use this to allow CamelContext and routes to startup in situations where a producer may otherwise fail during starting and cause the route to fail being started. By deferring this startup to be lazy then the startup failure can be handled during routing messages via Camel’s routing error handlers. Beware that when the first message is processed then creating and starting the producer may take a little time and prolong the total processing time of the processing.	false	boolean
autowiredEnabled (advanced)	Whether autowiring is enabled. This is used for automatic autowiring options (the option must be marked as autowired) by looking up in the registry to find if there is a single instance of matching type, which then gets configured on the component. This can be used for automatic configuring JDBC data sources, JMS connection factories, AWS Clients, etc.	true	boolean
transform (advanced)	Explicitly sets the Transform to use. If not set a Transform specified by the transformDsl will be created.		Transform

Name

Description

Default

Type

allowTemplateFromHeader (producer)

Whether to allow to use resource template from header or not (default false). Enabling this allows to specify dynamic templates via message header. However this can be seen as a potential security vulnerability if the header is coming from a malicious user, so use this with care.

false

boolean

lazyStartProducer (producer)

Whether the producer should be started lazy (on the first message). By starting lazy you can use this to allow CamelContext and routes to startup in situations where a producer may otherwise fail during starting and cause the route to fail being started. By deferring this startup to be lazy then the startup failure can be handled during routing messages via Camel’s routing error handlers. Beware that when the first message is processed then creating and starting the producer may take a little time and prolong the total processing time of the processing.

false

boolean

autowiredEnabled (advanced)

Whether autowiring is enabled. This is used for automatic autowiring options (the option must be marked as autowired) by looking up in the registry to find if there is a single instance of matching type, which then gets configured on the component. This can be used for automatic configuring JDBC data sources, JMS connection factories, AWS Clients, etc.

true

boolean

transform (advanced)

Explicitly sets the Transform to use. If not set a Transform specified by the transformDsl will be created.

Transform

Endpoint Options

The JOLT endpoint is configured using URI syntax:

jolt:resourceUri

With the following path and query parameters:

Path Parameters (1 parameters)

Name	Description	Default	Type
resourceUri (producer)	Required Path to the resource. You can prefix with: classpath, file, http, ref, or bean. classpath, file and http loads the resource using these protocols (classpath is default). ref will lookup the resource in the registry. bean will call a method on a bean to be used as the resource. For bean you can specify the method name after dot, eg bean:myBean.myMethod.		String

Name

Description

Default

Type

resourceUri (producer)

Required Path to the resource. You can prefix with: classpath, file, http, ref, or bean. classpath, file and http loads the resource using these protocols (classpath is default). ref will lookup the resource in the registry. bean will call a method on a bean to be used as the resource. For bean you can specify the method name after dot, eg bean:myBean.myMethod.

String

Query Parameters (6 parameters)

Name	Description	Default	Type
allowTemplateFromHeader (producer)	Whether to allow to use resource template from header or not (default false). Enabling this allows to specify dynamic templates via message header. However this can be seen as a potential security vulnerability if the header is coming from a malicious user, so use this with care.	false	boolean
contentCache (producer)	Sets whether to use resource content cache or not.	false	boolean
inputType (producer)	Specifies if the input is hydrated JSON or a JSON String. Enum values: Hydrated JsonString	Hydrated	JoltInputOutputType
outputType (producer)	Specifies if the output should be hydrated JSON or a JSON String. Enum values: Hydrated JsonString	Hydrated	JoltInputOutputType
transformDsl (producer)	Specifies the Transform DSL of the endpoint resource. If none is specified Chainr will be used. Enum values: Chainr Shiftr Defaultr Removr Sortr	Chainr	JoltTransformType
lazyStartProducer (producer (advanced))	Whether the producer should be started lazy (on the first message). By starting lazy you can use this to allow CamelContext and routes to startup in situations where a producer may otherwise fail during starting and cause the route to fail being started. By deferring this startup to be lazy then the startup failure can be handled during routing messages via Camel’s routing error handlers. Beware that when the first message is processed then creating and starting the producer may take a little time and prolong the total processing time of the processing.	false	boolean

Name

Description

Default

Type

allowTemplateFromHeader (producer)

Whether to allow to use resource template from header or not (default false). Enabling this allows to specify dynamic templates via message header. However this can be seen as a potential security vulnerability if the header is coming from a malicious user, so use this with care.

false

boolean

contentCache (producer)

Sets whether to use resource content cache or not.

false

boolean

inputType (producer)

Specifies if the input is hydrated JSON or a JSON String.

Enum values:

Hydrated
JsonString

Hydrated

JoltInputOutputType

outputType (producer)

Specifies if the output should be hydrated JSON or a JSON String.

Enum values:

Hydrated
JsonString

Hydrated

JoltInputOutputType

transformDsl (producer)

Specifies the Transform DSL of the endpoint resource. If none is specified Chainr will be used.

Enum values:

Chainr
Shiftr
Defaultr
Removr
Sortr

Chainr

JoltTransformType

lazyStartProducer (producer (advanced))

Whether the producer should be started lazy (on the first message). By starting lazy you can use this to allow CamelContext and routes to startup in situations where a producer may otherwise fail during starting and cause the route to fail being started. By deferring this startup to be lazy then the startup failure can be handled during routing messages via Camel’s routing error handlers. Beware that when the first message is processed then creating and starting the producer may take a little time and prolong the total processing time of the processing.

false

boolean

Message Headers

The JOLT component supports 2 message header(s), which is/are listed below:

Name Description Default Type

Name	Description	Default	Type
CamelJoltResourceUri (producer) Constant: `JOLT_RESOURCE_URI`	The resource URI.		String
CamelJoltContext (producer) Constant: `JOLT_CONTEXT`	The context.		Map

CamelJoltResourceUri (producer)

Constant: JOLT_RESOURCE_URI

The resource URI.

String

CamelJoltContext (producer)

Constant: JOLT_CONTEXT

The context.

Map

Samples

For example, you could use something like

from("activemq:My.Queue").
  to("jolt:com/acme/MyResponse.json");

And a file-based resource:

from("activemq:My.Queue").
  to("jolt:file://myfolder/MyResponse.json?contentCache=true").
  to("activemq:Another.Queue");

You can also specify what specification the component should use dynamically via a header, so, for example:

from("direct:in").
  setHeader("CamelJoltResourceUri").constant("path/to/my/spec.json").
  to("jolt:dummy?allowTemplateFromHeader=true");

Spring Boot Auto-Configuration

When using jolt with Spring Boot make sure to use the following Maven dependency to have support for auto configuration:

<dependency>
  <groupId>org.apache.camel.springboot</groupId>
  <artifactId>camel-jolt-starter</artifactId>
  <version>x.x.x</version>
  <!-- use the same version as your Camel core version -->
</dependency>

The component supports 5 options, which are listed below.

Name	Description	Default	Type
camel.component.jolt.allow-template-from-header	Whether to allow to use resource template from header or not (default false). Enabling this allows to specify dynamic templates via message header. However this can be seen as a potential security vulnerability if the header is coming from a malicious user, so use this with care.	false	Boolean
camel.component.jolt.autowired-enabled	Whether autowiring is enabled. This is used for automatic autowiring options (the option must be marked as autowired) by looking up in the registry to find if there is a single instance of matching type, which then gets configured on the component. This can be used for automatic configuring JDBC data sources, JMS connection factories, AWS Clients, etc.	true	Boolean
camel.component.jolt.enabled	Whether to enable auto configuration of the jolt component. This is enabled by default.		Boolean
camel.component.jolt.lazy-start-producer	Whether the producer should be started lazy (on the first message). By starting lazy you can use this to allow CamelContext and routes to startup in situations where a producer may otherwise fail during starting and cause the route to fail being started. By deferring this startup to be lazy then the startup failure can be handled during routing messages via Camel’s routing error handlers. Beware that when the first message is processed then creating and starting the producer may take a little time and prolong the total processing time of the processing.	false	Boolean
camel.component.jolt.transform	Explicitly sets the Transform to use. If not set a Transform specified by the transformDsl will be created. The option is a com.bazaarvoice.jolt.Transform type.		Transform

Name

Description

Default

Type

camel.component.jolt.allow-template-from-header

Whether to allow to use resource template from header or not (default false). Enabling this allows to specify dynamic templates via message header. However this can be seen as a potential security vulnerability if the header is coming from a malicious user, so use this with care.

false

Boolean

camel.component.jolt.autowired-enabled

Whether autowiring is enabled. This is used for automatic autowiring options (the option must be marked as autowired) by looking up in the registry to find if there is a single instance of matching type, which then gets configured on the component. This can be used for automatic configuring JDBC data sources, JMS connection factories, AWS Clients, etc.

true

Boolean

camel.component.jolt.enabled

Whether to enable auto configuration of the jolt component. This is enabled by default.

Boolean

camel.component.jolt.lazy-start-producer

Whether the producer should be started lazy (on the first message). By starting lazy you can use this to allow CamelContext and routes to startup in situations where a producer may otherwise fail during starting and cause the route to fail being started. By deferring this startup to be lazy then the startup failure can be handled during routing messages via Camel’s routing error handlers. Beware that when the first message is processed then creating and starting the producer may take a little time and prolong the total processing time of the processing.

false

Boolean

camel.component.jolt.transform

Explicitly sets the Transform to use. If not set a Transform specified by the transformDsl will be created. The option is a com.bazaarvoice.jolt.Transform type.

Transform