CouchDB

Since Camel 2.11

The couchdb: component allows you to treat CouchDB instances as a producer or consumer of messages. Using the lightweight LightCouch API, this camel component has the following features:

As a consumer, monitors couch changesets for inserts, updates and deletes and publishes these as messages into camel routes.
As a producer, can save, update, from Camel 2.18 delete (by using CouchDbMethod with DELETE value) documents and from Camel 2.22 get document by id (by using CouchDbMethod with GET value) into couch.
Can support as many endpoints as required, eg for multiple databases across multiple instances.
Ability to have events trigger for only deletes, only inserts/updates or all (default).
Headers set for sequenceId, document revision, document id, and HTTP method type.

Maven users will need to add the following dependency to their pom.xml for this component:

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.apache.camel</groupId>
    <artifactId>camel-couchdb</artifactId>
    <version>x.x.x</version>
    <!-- use the same version as your Camel core version -->
</dependency>

URI format

couchdb:http://hostname[:port]/database?[options]

Where hostname is the hostname of the running couchdb instance. Port is optional and if not specified then defaults to 5984.

Options

The CouchDB component has no options.

The CouchDB endpoint is configured using URI syntax:

couchdb:protocol:hostname:port/database

with the following path and query parameters:

Path Parameters (4 parameters):

Name	Description	Default	Type
protocol	Required The protocol to use for communicating with the database.		String
hostname	Required Hostname of the running couchdb instance		String
port	Port number for the running couchdb instance	5984	int
database	Required Name of the database to use		String

Name

Description

Default

Type

protocol

Required The protocol to use for communicating with the database.

String

hostname

Required Hostname of the running couchdb instance

String

port

Port number for the running couchdb instance

5984

int

database

Required Name of the database to use

String

Query Parameters (12 parameters):

Name	Description	Default	Type
createDatabase (common)	Creates the database if it does not already exist	false	boolean
bridgeErrorHandler (consumer)	Allows for bridging the consumer to the Camel routing Error Handler, which mean any exceptions occurred while the consumer is trying to pickup incoming messages, or the likes, will now be processed as a message and handled by the routing Error Handler. By default the consumer will use the org.apache.camel.spi.ExceptionHandler to deal with exceptions, that will be logged at WARN or ERROR level and ignored.	false	boolean
deletes (consumer)	Document deletes are published as events	true	boolean
heartbeat (consumer)	How often to send an empty message to keep socket alive in millis	30000	long
since (consumer)	Start tracking changes immediately after the given update sequence. The default, null, will start monitoring from the latest sequence.		String
style (consumer)	Specifies how many revisions are returned in the changes array. The default, main_only, will only return the current winning revision; all_docs will return all leaf revisions (including conflicts and deleted former conflicts.)	main_only	String
updates (consumer)	Document inserts/updates are published as events	true	boolean
exceptionHandler (consumer)	To let the consumer use a custom ExceptionHandler. Notice if the option bridgeErrorHandler is enabled then this option is not in use. By default the consumer will deal with exceptions, that will be logged at WARN or ERROR level and ignored.		ExceptionHandler
exchangePattern (consumer)	Sets the exchange pattern when the consumer creates an exchange.		ExchangePattern
synchronous (advanced)	Sets whether synchronous processing should be strictly used, or Camel is allowed to use asynchronous processing (if supported).	false	boolean
password (security)	Password for authenticated databases		String
username (security)	Username in case of authenticated databases		String

Name

Description

Default

Type

createDatabase (common)

Creates the database if it does not already exist

false

boolean

bridgeErrorHandler (consumer)

Allows for bridging the consumer to the Camel routing Error Handler, which mean any exceptions occurred while the consumer is trying to pickup incoming messages, or the likes, will now be processed as a message and handled by the routing Error Handler. By default the consumer will use the org.apache.camel.spi.ExceptionHandler to deal with exceptions, that will be logged at WARN or ERROR level and ignored.

false

boolean

deletes (consumer)

Document deletes are published as events

true

boolean

heartbeat (consumer)

How often to send an empty message to keep socket alive in millis

30000

long

since (consumer)

Start tracking changes immediately after the given update sequence. The default, null, will start monitoring from the latest sequence.

String

style (consumer)

Specifies how many revisions are returned in the changes array. The default, main_only, will only return the current winning revision; all_docs will return all leaf revisions (including conflicts and deleted former conflicts.)

main_only

String

updates (consumer)

Document inserts/updates are published as events

true

boolean

exceptionHandler (consumer)

To let the consumer use a custom ExceptionHandler. Notice if the option bridgeErrorHandler is enabled then this option is not in use. By default the consumer will deal with exceptions, that will be logged at WARN or ERROR level and ignored.

ExceptionHandler

exchangePattern (consumer)

Sets the exchange pattern when the consumer creates an exchange.

ExchangePattern

synchronous (advanced)

Sets whether synchronous processing should be strictly used, or Camel is allowed to use asynchronous processing (if supported).

false

boolean

password (security)

Password for authenticated databases

String

username (security)

Username in case of authenticated databases

String

Spring Boot Auto-Configuration

When using Spring Boot make sure to use the following Maven dependency to have support for auto configuration:

<dependency>
  <groupId>org.apache.camel</groupId>
  <artifactId>camel-couchdb-starter</artifactId>
  <version>x.x.x</version>
  <!-- use the same version as your Camel core version -->
</dependency>

The component supports 2 options, which are listed below.

Name	Description	Default	Type
camel.component.couchdb.enabled	Enable couchdb component	true	Boolean
camel.component.couchdb.resolve-property-placeholders	Whether the component should resolve property placeholders on itself when starting. Only properties which are of String type can use property placeholders.	true	Boolean

Name

Description

Default

Type

camel.component.couchdb.enabled

Enable couchdb component

true

Boolean

camel.component.couchdb.resolve-property-placeholders

Whether the component should resolve property placeholders on itself when starting. Only properties which are of String type can use property placeholders.

true

Boolean

Headers

The following headers are set on exchanges during message transport.

Property Value

Property	Value
`CouchDbDatabase`	the database the message came from
`CouchDbSeq`	the couchdb changeset sequence number of the update / delete message
`CouchDbId`	the couchdb document id
`CouchDbRev`	the couchdb document revision
`CouchDbMethod`	the method (delete / update)

CouchDbDatabase

the database the message came from

CouchDbSeq

the couchdb changeset sequence number of the update / delete message

CouchDbId

the couchdb document id

CouchDbRev

the couchdb document revision

CouchDbMethod

the method (delete / update)

Headers are set by the consumer once the message is received. The producer will also set the headers for downstream processors once the insert/update has taken place. Any headers set prior to the producer are ignored. That means for example, if you set CouchDbId as a header, it will not be used as the id for insertion, the id of the document will still be used.

Message Body

The component will use the message body as the document to be inserted. If the body is an instance of String, then it will be marshalled into a GSON object before insert. This means that the string must be valid JSON or the insert / update will fail. If the body is an instance of a com.google.gson.JsonElement then it will be inserted as is. Otherwise the producer will throw an exception of unsupported body type.

Samples

For example if you wish to consume all inserts, updates and deletes from a CouchDB instance running locally, on port 9999 then you could use the following:

from("couchdb:http://localhost:9999").process(someProcessor);

If you were only interested in deletes, then you could use the following

from("couchdb:http://localhost:9999?updates=false").process(someProcessor);

If you wanted to insert a message as a document, then the body of the exchange is used

from("someProducingEndpoint").process(someProcessor).to("couchdb:http://localhost:9999")