Camel route, unparsed date

Question

i'm using camel route that sends emails with smtp.gmail.com the URI is something like this

 uri="smtps://[email protected]&[email protected]&password=password&debugMode=true&[email protected]&subject=${date:now:yyyyMMdd}"

so i'm expecting to get the current date as Subject , but the date is not parsed and it prints "${date:now:yyyyMMdd}"

Answer 1

I'm not sure you can use the simple expression inside the uri like that. You'd be better off setting the subject and other values in headers.

<route>
  <from uri="direct:example" />
  <setHeader headerName="subject"><simple>${date:now:yyyyMMdd}</simple></setHeader>
  <setHeader headerName="from"><constant>[email protected]</constant></setHeader>
  <setHeader headerName="to"><constant>[email protected]</constant></setHeader>
  <setHeader headerName="username"><constant>[email protected]</constant></setHeader>
  <setHeader headerName="password"><constant>password</constant></setHeader>
  <to uri="smtps://smtp.gmail.com?debugMode=true" />
</route>

Answer 2

You can simply use your URI inside a RecipientList. So

Instead of:

<to uri="smtps://[email protected]&amp;[email protected]&amp;password=password&amp;debugMode=true&amp;[email protected]&amp;subject=${date:now:yyyyMMdd}"/>

Use:

<recipientList>
  <simple>smtps://[email protected]&amp;[email protected]&amp;password=password&amp;debugMode=true&amp;[email protected]&amp;subject=${date:now:yyyyMMdd}</simple>
</recipientList>

Let me know if this works for you.

Read more here: http://camel.apache.org/how-to-use-a-dynamic-uri-in-to.html