Wire Tap

Wire Tap from the EIP patterns allows you to route messages to a separate location while they are being forwarded to the ultimate destination.

Options

The Wire Tap eip supports 10 options, which are listed below.

Name	Description	Default	Type
copy	Uses a copy of the original exchange.	true	Boolean
dynamicUri	Whether the uri is dynamic or static. If the uri is dynamic then the simple language is used to evaluate a dynamic uri to use as the wire-tap destination, for each incoming message. This works similar to how the toD EIP pattern works. If static then the uri is used as-is as the wire-tap destination.	true	Boolean
onPrepare	Uses the Processor when preparing the org.apache.camel.Exchange to be sent. This can be used to deep-clone messages that should be sent, or any custom logic needed before the exchange is sent.		Processor
executorService	Uses a custom thread pool.		ExecutorService
uri	Required The uri of the endpoint to send to. The uri can be dynamic computed using the org.apache.camel.language.simple.SimpleLanguage expression.		String
pattern	Sets the optional ExchangePattern used to invoke this endpoint. Enum values: InOnly InOut InOptionalOut		ExchangePattern
cacheSize	Sets the maximum size used by the org.apache.camel.spi.ProducerCache which is used to cache and reuse producers when using this recipient list, when uris are reused. Beware that when using dynamic endpoints then it affects how well the cache can be utilized. If each dynamic endpoint is unique then its best to turn of caching by setting this to -1, which allows Camel to not cache both the producers and endpoints; they are regarded as prototype scoped and will be stopped and discarded after use. This reduces memory usage as otherwise producers/endpoints are stored in memory in the caches. However if there are a high degree of dynamic endpoints that have been used before, then it can benefit to use the cache to reuse both producers and endpoints and therefore the cache size can be set accordingly or rely on the default size (1000). If there is a mix of unique and used before dynamic endpoints, then setting a reasonable cache size can help reduce memory usage to avoid storing too many non frequent used producers.		Integer
ignoreInvalidEndpoint	Ignore the invalidate endpoint exception when try to create a producer with that endpoint.		Boolean
allowOptimisedComponents	Whether to allow components to optimise toD if they are org.apache.camel.spi.SendDynamicAware .	true	Boolean
autoStartComponents	Whether to auto startup components when toD is starting up.	true	Boolean
description	Sets the description of this node.		DescriptionDefinition

Name

Description

Default

Type

copy

Uses a copy of the original exchange.

true

Boolean

dynamicUri

Whether the uri is dynamic or static. If the uri is dynamic then the simple language is used to evaluate a dynamic uri to use as the wire-tap destination, for each incoming message. This works similar to how the toD EIP pattern works. If static then the uri is used as-is as the wire-tap destination.

true

Boolean

onPrepare

Uses the Processor when preparing the org.apache.camel.Exchange to be sent. This can be used to deep-clone messages that should be sent, or any custom logic needed before the exchange is sent.

Processor

executorService

Uses a custom thread pool.

ExecutorService

uri

Required The uri of the endpoint to send to. The uri can be dynamic computed using the org.apache.camel.language.simple.SimpleLanguage expression.

String

pattern

Sets the optional ExchangePattern used to invoke this endpoint.

Enum values:

InOnly
InOut
InOptionalOut

ExchangePattern

cacheSize

Sets the maximum size used by the org.apache.camel.spi.ProducerCache which is used to cache and reuse producers when using this recipient list, when uris are reused. Beware that when using dynamic endpoints then it affects how well the cache can be utilized. If each dynamic endpoint is unique then its best to turn of caching by setting this to -1, which allows Camel to not cache both the producers and endpoints; they are regarded as prototype scoped and will be stopped and discarded after use. This reduces memory usage as otherwise producers/endpoints are stored in memory in the caches. However if there are a high degree of dynamic endpoints that have been used before, then it can benefit to use the cache to reuse both producers and endpoints and therefore the cache size can be set accordingly or rely on the default size (1000). If there is a mix of unique and used before dynamic endpoints, then setting a reasonable cache size can help reduce memory usage to avoid storing too many non frequent used producers.

Integer

ignoreInvalidEndpoint

Ignore the invalidate endpoint exception when try to create a producer with that endpoint.

Boolean

allowOptimisedComponents

Whether to allow components to optimise toD if they are org.apache.camel.spi.SendDynamicAware .

true

Boolean

autoStartComponents

Whether to auto startup components when toD is starting up.

true

Boolean

description

Sets the description of this node.

DescriptionDefinition

Wire Tap

Camel’s Wire Tap will copy the original Exchange and set its Exchange Pattern to InOnly, as we want the tapped Exchange to be sent in a fire and forget style. The tapped Exchange is then sent in a separate thread, so it can run in parallel with the original. Beware that only the Exchange is copied - Wire Tap won’t do a deep clone (unless you specify a custom processor via onPrepare which does that). So all copies could share objects from the original Exchange.

Using Wire Tap

In the example below the exchange is wire tapped to the direct:tap route. This route delays the message 1 second before continuing. This is because it allows you to see that the tapped message is routed independently of the original route, so that you would see log:result happens before log:tap

from("direct:start")
    .to("log:foo")
    .wireTap("direct:tap")
    .to("log:result");

from("direct:tap")
    .delay(1000).setBody().constant("Tapped")
    .to("log:tap");

And in XML:

<routes>

  <route>
    <from uri="direct:start"/>
    <wireTap uri="direct:tap"/>
    <to uri="log:result"/>
  </route>

  <route>
    <from uri="direct:tap"/>
    <to uri="log:log"/>
  </route>

</routes>

Wire tapping with dynamic URIs

For example to wire tap to a dynamic URI, then the URI uses the Simple language that allows to construct dynamic URIs.

For example to wire tap to a JMS queue where the header ID is part of the queue name:

from("direct:start")
    .wireTap("jms:queue:backup-${header.id}")
    .to("bean:doSomething");

And in XML:

<route>
  <from uri="direct:start"/>
  <wireTap uri="jms:queue:backup-${header.id}"/>
  <to uri="bean:doSomething"/>
</route>

WireTap Thread Pools

The WireTap uses a thread pool to process the tapped messages. This thread pool will by default use the settings detailed at Threading Model.

In particular, when the pool is exhausted (with all threads utilized), further wiretaps will be executed synchronously by the calling thread. To remedy this, you can configure an explicit thread pool on the Wire Tap having either a different rejection policy, a larger worker queue, or more worker threads.

Wire tapping Streaming based messages

If you Wire Tap a stream message body then you should consider enabling Stream caching to ensure the message body can be read at each endpoint.

See more details at Stream caching.