XChange
Since Camel 2.21
Only producer is supported
The XChange component uses the XChange Java library to provide access to 60+ Bitcoin and Altcoin exchanges. It comes with a consistent interface for trading and accessing market data.
Camel can get crypto currency market data, query historical data, place market orders and much more.
Maven users will need to add the following dependency to their pom.xml
for this component:
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.camel</groupId>
<artifactId>camel-xchange</artifactId>
<version>x.x.x</version>
<!-- use the same version as your Camel core version -->
</dependency>Options
The XChange component supports 2 options, which are listed below.
| Name | Description | Default | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
lazyStartProducer (producer) |
Whether the producer should be started lazy (on the first message). By starting lazy you can use this to allow CamelContext and routes to startup in situations where a producer may otherwise fail during starting and cause the route to fail being started. By deferring this startup to be lazy then the startup failure can be handled during routing messages via Camel’s routing error handlers. Beware that when the first message is processed then creating and starting the producer may take a little time and prolong the total processing time of the processing. |
false |
boolean |
basicPropertyBinding (advanced) |
Whether the component should use basic property binding (Camel 2.x) or the newer property binding with additional capabilities |
false |
boolean |
The XChange endpoint is configured using URI syntax:
xchange:name
with the following path and query parameters:
Path Parameters (1 parameters):
| Name | Description | Default | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
name |
Required The exchange to connect to |
String |
Query Parameters (7 parameters):
| Name | Description | Default | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
currency (producer) |
The currency |
Currency |
|
currencyPair (producer) |
The currency pair |
String |
|
lazyStartProducer (producer) |
Whether the producer should be started lazy (on the first message). By starting lazy you can use this to allow CamelContext and routes to startup in situations where a producer may otherwise fail during starting and cause the route to fail being started. By deferring this startup to be lazy then the startup failure can be handled during routing messages via Camel’s routing error handlers. Beware that when the first message is processed then creating and starting the producer may take a little time and prolong the total processing time of the processing. |
false |
boolean |
method (producer) |
Required The method to execute. The value can be one of: balances, fundingHistory, wallets, currencies, currencyMetaData, currencyPairs, currencyPairMetaData, ticker |
XChangeMethod |
|
service (producer) |
Required The service to call. The value can be one of: marketdata, metadata, account |
XChangeService |
|
basicPropertyBinding (advanced) |
Whether the endpoint should use basic property binding (Camel 2.x) or the newer property binding with additional capabilities |
false |
boolean |
synchronous (advanced) |
Sets whether synchronous processing should be strictly used, or Camel is allowed to use asynchronous processing (if supported). |
false |
boolean |
Authentication
This component communicates with supported crypto currency exchanges via REST API. Some API requests use simple unauthenticated GET request. For most of the interesting stuff however, you’d need an account with the exchange and have API access keys enabled.
These API access keys need to be guarded tightly, especially so when they also allow for the withdraw functionality. In which case, anyone who can get hold of your API keys can easily transfer funds from your account to some other address i.e. steal your money.
Your API access keys can be strored in an exchange specific properties file in your SSH directory.
For Binance for example this would be: ~/.ssh/binance-secret.keys
## # This file MUST NEVER be commited to source control. # It is therefore added to .gitignore. # apiKey = GuRW0********* secretKey = nKLki************
Samples
In this sample we find the current Bitcoin market price in USDT:
from("direct:ticker").to("xchange:binance?service=market&method=ticker¤cyPair=BTC/USDT")Spring Boot Auto-Configuration
When using xchange with Spring Boot make sure to use the following Maven dependency to have support for auto configuration:
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.camel.springboot</groupId>
<artifactId>camel-xchange-starter</artifactId>
<version>x.x.x</version>
<!-- use the same version as your Camel core version -->
</dependency>The component supports 3 options, which are listed below.
| Name | Description | Default | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
camel.component.xchange.autowired-enabled |
Whether autowiring is enabled. This is used for automatic autowiring options (the option must be marked as autowired) by looking up in the registry to find if there is a single instance of matching type, which then gets configured on the component. This can be used for automatic configuring JDBC data sources, JMS connection factories, AWS Clients, etc. |
true |
Boolean |
camel.component.xchange.enabled |
Whether to enable auto configuration of the xchange component. This is enabled by default. |
Boolean |
|
camel.component.xchange.lazy-start-producer |
Whether the producer should be started lazy (on the first message). By starting lazy you can use this to allow CamelContext and routes to startup in situations where a producer may otherwise fail during starting and cause the route to fail being started. By deferring this startup to be lazy then the startup failure can be handled during routing messages via Camel’s routing error handlers. Beware that when the first message is processed then creating and starting the producer may take a little time and prolong the total processing time of the processing. |
false |
Boolean |