[jira] [Resolved] (CAMEL-10447) Add contract based type awareness

["Tomohisa Igarashi (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Tomohisa Igarashi resolved CAMEL-10447.
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       Resolution: Fixed
    Fix Version/s: 2.19.0

> Add contract based type awareness
> ---------------------------------
>
>                 Key: CAMEL-10447
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CAMEL-10447
>             Project: Camel
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: camel-core
>            Reporter: Tomohisa Igarashi
>            Assignee: Tomohisa Igarashi
>             Fix For: 2.19.0
>
>
> Original proposal is available here:
> https://github.com/kcbabo/sandbox/blob/master/camel-metadata.md
> We'd like to propose adding contract based type awareness on the Camel Message Exchange. It introduces following benefits to Camel users:
> * Static evaluation and validation of data types and interactions in an application.
> * Runtime evaluation of data types and interactions
> * The ability to start with a weak/dynamically typed application and move to a statically typed application
> * Support for declarative transformation / automatic type conversion
> * Support for declarative validation of data types
> Let's see the declarative transformation example:
> {code:java}
> from("direct:abc")
>         .inputType("java:org.example.Order")
>     .to("direct:d")
>         .inputType("xml:{org.example}xmlOrder")
>         .outputType("urn:acme:orderAck")
>     .to("direct:e")
> {code}
> Instead of specifying transform().marshal() programmatically in the route, above declares data type contract of the endpoints. This example means that the input message should be transformed from *java:org.example.Order* to *xml:\{org.example\}xmlOrder* before it is sent to *direct:d* from *direct:abc*.
> Once we add this feature, we can even validate if required transformer is declared along the data type by some maven plugin or IDE at design time.
> The most important thing is that this feature is *completely optional*, so it doesn't make any effect on existing Camel applications at all unless type declaration is explicitly added.
> We've been discussing about this here in camel-dev:
> http://camel.465427.n5.nabble.com/Adding-type-awareness-in-Camel-route-td5787621.html



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