Threads

Options

The Threads EIP supports 10 options which are listed below:

Name Description Default Type

executorServiceRef

To refer to a custom thread pool or use a thread pool profile (as overlay)

String

poolSize

Sets the core pool size

Integer

maxPoolSize

Sets the maximum pool size

Integer

keepAliveTime

Sets the keep alive time for idle threads

Long

timeUnit

Sets the keep alive time unit. By default SECONDS is used.

TimeUnit

maxQueueSize

Sets the maximum number of tasks in the work queue. Use -1 or Integer.MAX_VALUE for an unbounded queue

Integer

allowCoreThreadTimeOut

Whether idle core threads is allowed to timeout and therefore can shrink the pool size below the core pool size Is by default false

false

Boolean

threadName

Sets the thread name to use.

Threads

String

rejectedPolicy

Sets the handler for tasks which cannot be executed by the thread pool.

ThreadPoolRejectedPolicy

callerRunsWhenRejected

Whether or not to use as caller runs as fallback when a task is rejected being added to the thread pool (when its full). This is only used as fallback if no rejectedPolicy has been configured, or the thread pool has no configured rejection handler. Is by default true

true

String

Samples

The example below will add a Thread pool with a pool size of 5 threads before sending to mock:result.

from("seda:a")
  .threads(5)
  .to("mock:result");

Spring DSL

The sample below demonstrates the threads EIP in Spring DSL:

<camelContext xmlns="http://camel.apache.org/schema/spring">
    <route>
        <from uri="seda:a"/>
        <threads poolSize="5"/>
        <to uri="mock:result"/>
    </route>
</camelContext>
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