[CAMEL-6511] auto-enable and detect Dozer mappings

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Won't Fix
• Component/s: camel-dozer
• Estimated Complexity: Unknown
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: James Strachan
• Created: 04/Jul/13 12:53
• Updated: 31/Jul/19 04:24
• Resolved: 31/Jul/19 04:24

Description

I wonder if we can avoid having to explicitly configure in Spring the DozerTypeConverterLoader class along with the explicit org.dozer.DozerBeanMapper; but instead get camel-core to auto-detect (with META-INF/services or similar OSGi tricks) the presence of the camel-dozer library and then just automatically create it. e.g. using a META-INF/services/..../TypeConverterLoader file to force the lazy creation of the DozerTypeConverterLoader object.

Then also automatically scan for all META-INF/services/dozerMapping.xml files and register them all.

For more info see:
http://camel.apache.org/dozer-type-conversion.html

Then it would feel like Dozer mapping files are kinda like Camel type converters; that they are just automatically discovered and configured on the fly - if they are defined in the convention-over-configuration way?

e.g. given that camel-dozer is on the classpath, all that is required is you add a META-INF/services/dozer/mapping.xml file to the classpath and hey-presto all the type conversions defined inside it are immediately available to Camel