[CAMEL-5503] Expanding Bean Binding annotations to define explicitly what to apply it to

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 2.11.0
• Component/s: camel-core
• Patch Info: Patch Available
• Estimated Complexity: Unknown
• Assignee: Willem Jiang
• Reporter: Alan Foster
• Created: 13/Aug/12 19:03
• Updated: 18/Jan/13 15:55
• Resolved: 18/Jan/13 15:55

Description

Currently the bean binding annotations are applied to the body like so :

public void doSomething(@XPath("//foo/bar/text()") String someValue) {
}

It would be nice if you could specify what you want to apply it to; for instance you could specify to apply it to headers/properties etc

In terms of annotations it may look something like:

public void doSomething(@XPath("//foo/bar/text()", @Header("someHeader")) String someValue) {
}

For backwards compatability it would of course still apply to the body by default, but we can still offer the ability to use it apply it explicitly ie
@XPath("//baz/text(), @Body) String someOtherValue

I feel like this would be a useful addition to camel's bean binding.

If anyone feels this is a good idea, I am offering to try it out and see how it goes