Re: Use a route to delete a file?

[Claus Ibsen <cl...@gmail.com>]

On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 3:57 PM, ankelee <an...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> I have a route where I fetch a batch of files (copies) from an FTP, send
> this batch to another route and shutdown the FTP route.
>
> Then I process the files, and based on that processing I want to delete
> these files (one by one) from the FTP.
>
> Any ideas how I could do this?
>
> I was thinking using the filename header as a parameter to a from-uri and
> then sending that message to nowhere resulting in it being deleted. This
> can't be done using the DSL's but I was thinking it might be possible using
> something like a FTP-consumer class that takes the uri as a string and then
> concat the header on to that string so that only the file with the filename
> from the hader gets consume.
>
> This is somewhat of a workaround but I would like to stick to using Camel
> stuff and not do the FTP deletion with Processor and some ftp-lib.
> --

The consumer will transfer the file again. If you want to avoid this
overhead you may have to use the FTP library to delete the file.
However camel-ftp has a FileOperations API where there is a delete
method. You may be able to use this API to delete the file.



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