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Name Default Value Description
delay 0 Initial delay in milliseconds before consuming or producing the stream.
encoding JVM Default As of 1.4, you can configure the encoding (is a charset name) to use text-based streams (for example, message body is a String object). If not provided, Fuse Mediation Router uses the JVM default Charset.
promptMessage null Fuse Mediation Router 2.0: Message prompt to use when reading from stream:in; for example, you could set this to Enter a command:
promptDelay 0 Fuse Mediation Router 2.0: Optional delay in milliseconds before showing the message prompt.
initialPromptDelay 2000 Fuse Mediation Router 2.0: Initial delay in milliseconds before showing the message prompt. This delay occurs only once. Can be used during system startup to avoid message prompts being written while other logging is done to the system out.
fileName null Fuse Mediation Router 2.0: When using the stream:file URI format, this option specifies the filename to stream to/from.
scanStream false

Fuse Mediation Router 2.0: To be used for continuously reading a stream such as the unix tail command. Camel 2.4 to Camel 2.6: will retry opening the file if it is overwritten, somewhat like tail --retry

retry false Camel 2.7: will retry opening the file if it's overwritten, somewhat like tail --retry
scanStreamDelay 0 Fuse Mediation Router 2.0: Delay in milliseconds between read attempts when using scanStream.
groupLines 0 Camel 2.5: To group X number of lines in the consumer. For example to group 10 lines and therefore only spit out an Exchange with 10 lines, instead of 1 Exchange per line.

In the following sample we route messages from the direct:in endpoint to the System.out stream:

@Test
public void testStringContent() throws Exception {
    template.sendBody("direct:in", "Hello Text World\n");
}

@Test
public void testBinaryContent() {
    template.sendBody("direct:in", "Hello Bytes World\n".getBytes());
}

protected RouteBuilder createRouteBuilder() {
    return new RouteBuilder() {
        public void configure() {
            from("direct:in").to("stream:out");
        }
    };
}

The following sample demonstrates how the header type can be used to determine which stream to use. In the sample we use our own output stream, MyOutputStream.

private OutputStream mystream = new MyOutputStream();
private StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer();

@Test
public void testStringContent() {
    template.sendBody("direct:in", "Hello");
    // StreamProducer appends \n in text mode
    assertEquals("Hello\n", sb.toString());
}

@Test
public void testBinaryContent() {
    template.sendBody("direct:in", "Hello".getBytes());
    // StreamProducer is in binary mode so no \n is appended
    assertEquals("Hello", sb.toString());
}

protected RouteBuilder createRouteBuilder() {
    return new RouteBuilder() {
        public void configure() {
            from("direct:in").setHeader("stream", constant(mystream)).
                to("stream:header");
        }
    };
}

private class MyOutputStream extends OutputStream {

    public void write(int b) throws IOException {
        sb.append((char)b);
    }
}

The following sample demonstrates how to continuously read a file stream (analogous to the UNIX tail command):

from("stream:file?fileName=/server/logs/server.log&scanStream=true&scanStreamDelay=1000").to("bean:logService?method=parseLogLine");
[Note]Note

One difficulty with using the combination of scanStream and retry is that the file will be re-opened and scanned with each iteration of scanStreamDelay. Until NIO2 is available, we cannot reliably detect when a file is deleted or recreated.

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