[CAMEL-7504] Improve the throttler to have discarding/filtering capabilities

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 2.14.0
• Component/s: camel-core, eip
• Estimated Complexity: Unknown
• Assignee: Willem Jiang
• Reporter: David J. M. Karlsen
• Created: 12/Jun/14 16:11
• Updated: 02/Jul/14 19:01
• Resolved: 23/Jun/14 22:36

Description

It would be nice if the throttler, http://camel.apache.org/throttler.html, could discard/filter the messages exceeding the limit.

My usecase is to send alerts to a alering route, and stick the trottler in front of an smtp endpoint to limit the number of emails sent during a period.