FOP :: Apache Camel

URI format

fop://outputFormat?[options]

Output Formats

The primary output format is PDF but other output formats are also supported:

name	outputFormat	description
PDF	application/pdf	Portable Document Format
PS	application/postscript	Adobe Postscript
PCL	application/x-pcl	Printer Control Language
PNG	image/png	PNG images
JPEG	image/jpeg	JPEG images
SVG	image/svg+xml	Scalable Vector Graphics
XML	application/X-fop-areatree	Area tree representation
MIF	application/mif	FrameMaker’s MIF
RTF	application/rtf	Rich Text Format
TXT	text/plain	Text

name

outputFormat

description

PDF

application/pdf

Portable Document Format

PS

application/postscript

Adobe Postscript

PCL

application/x-pcl

Printer Control Language

PNG

image/png

PNG images

JPEG

image/jpeg

JPEG images

SVG

image/svg+xml

Scalable Vector Graphics

XML

application/X-fop-areatree

Area tree representation

MIF

application/mif

FrameMaker’s MIF

RTF

application/rtf

Rich Text Format

TXT

text/plain

Text

The complete list of valid output formats can be found in the MimeConstants.java source file.

Endpoint Options

The FOP 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)	Deprecated Whether the component should use basic property binding (Camel 2.x) or the newer property binding with additional capabilities	false	boolean

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)

Deprecated Whether the component should use basic property binding (Camel 2.x) or the newer property binding with additional capabilities

false

boolean

The FOP endpoint is configured using URI syntax:

fop:outputType

with the following path and query parameters:

Path Parameters (1 parameters):

Name	Description	Default	Type
outputType	Required The primary output format is PDF but other output formats are also supported. There are 10 enums and the value can be one of: pdf, ps, pcl, png, jpeg, svg, xml, mif, rtf, txt		FopOutputType

Name

Description

Default

Type

outputType

Required The primary output format is PDF but other output formats are also supported. There are 10 enums and the value can be one of: pdf, ps, pcl, png, jpeg, svg, xml, mif, rtf, txt

FopOutputType

Query Parameters (5 parameters):

Name	Description	Default	Type
fopFactory (producer)	Allows to use a custom configured or implementation of org.apache.fop.apps.FopFactory.		FopFactory
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
userConfigURL (producer)	The location of a configuration file which can be loaded from classpath or file system.		String
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

Name

Description

Default

Type

fopFactory (producer)

Allows to use a custom configured or implementation of org.apache.fop.apps.FopFactory.

FopFactory

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

userConfigURL (producer)

The location of a configuration file which can be loaded from classpath or file system.

String

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

The location of a configuration file with the following structure. The file is loaded from the classpath by default. You can use file:, or classpath: as prefix to load the resource from file or classpath. In previous releases the file is always loaded from file system.

Message Operations

name	default value	description
CamelFop.Output.Format		Overrides the output format for that message
CamelFop.Encrypt.userPassword		PDF user password
CamelFop.Encrypt.ownerPassword		PDF owner passoword
CamelFop.Encrypt.allowPrint	true	Allows printing the PDF
CamelFop.Encrypt.allowCopyContent	true	Allows copying content of the PDF
CamelFop.Encrypt.allowEditContent	true	Allows editing content of the PDF
CamelFop.Encrypt.allowEditAnnotations	true	Allows editing annotation of the PDF
CamelFop.Render.producer	Apache FOP	Metadata element for the system/software that produces the document
CamelFop.Render.creator		Metadata element for the user that created the document
CamelFop.Render.creationDate		Creation Date
CamelFop.Render.author		Author of the content of the document
CamelFop.Render.title		Title of the document
CamelFop.Render.subject		Subject of the document
CamelFop.Render.keywords		Set of keywords applicable to this document

name

default value

description

CamelFop.Output.Format

Overrides the output format for that message

CamelFop.Encrypt.userPassword

PDF user password

CamelFop.Encrypt.ownerPassword

PDF owner passoword

CamelFop.Encrypt.allowPrint

true

Allows printing the PDF

CamelFop.Encrypt.allowCopyContent

true

Allows copying content of the PDF

CamelFop.Encrypt.allowEditContent

true

Allows editing content of the PDF

CamelFop.Encrypt.allowEditAnnotations

true

Allows editing annotation of the PDF

CamelFop.Render.producer

Apache FOP

Metadata element for the system/software that produces the document

CamelFop.Render.creator

Metadata element for the user that created the document

CamelFop.Render.creationDate

Creation Date

CamelFop.Render.author

Author of the content of the document

CamelFop.Render.title

Title of the document

CamelFop.Render.subject

Subject of the document

CamelFop.Render.keywords

Set of keywords applicable to this document

Example

Below is an example route that renders PDFs from xml data and xslt template and saves the PDF files in target folder:

from("file:source/data/xml")
    .to("xslt:xslt/template.xsl")
    .to("fop:application/pdf")
    .to("file:target/data");

Spring Boot Auto-Configuration

When using fop 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-fop-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.fop.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.fop.enabled	Whether to enable auto configuration of the fop component. This is enabled by default.		Boolean
camel.component.fop.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

Name

Description

Default

Type

camel.component.fop.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.fop.enabled

Whether to enable auto configuration of the fop component. This is enabled by default.

Boolean

camel.component.fop.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