[CAMEL-3354] Allow bean component to return null which will be accepted as a new Message with an empty body

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Duplicate
• Affects Version/s: 2.5.0
• Fix Version/s: 2.9.0
• Component/s: camel-core
• Assignee: Claus Ibsen
• Reporter: Claus Ibsen
• Created: 23/Nov/10 09:09
• Updated: 26/Aug/11 06:42
• Resolved: 26/Aug/11 06:42

Description

See nabble
http://camel.465427.n5.nabble.com/Error-in-MessageSupport-when-using-JMSMessage-tp3268379p3268379.html

Although it was designed that a null response from a bean method call is regarded as do not mutate/change the message, we should look into allowing that.
The other may take people by surprise. However its a corner case wanting to change the message to an empty/null body.

Issue Links

• relates to: CAMEL-2436 BeanProcessor - Should differentiate between void and method returning null values