Camel - ControlBus - Activate timer route - apache-camel

Question

I have a timer route that is initially not started. I would like to activate it from another route. I am attempting to use the camel's controlbus EIP pattern.
// From my other route
.to("controlbus:route?routeId=fileConsumerRoute&action=start&async=true")
from("timer://camel-fileConsumerRoute?fixedRate=true&period=5s")
.routeId("fileConsumerRoute").noAutoStartup()
.log("Route is running");
I see in the logs aft the controlbus line is run that the route is being resumed
Context action: [resume]
but the timer still does not fire. I dont see the log line "Route is running"
How do I activate the timer endpoint with the controlbus?
Is there another EIP pattern or diffrent way to achieve activating the timer endpoint?

Answer 1

I realize I'm late to the party, but, you could use controlbus or something like this start stop routes. if there is some predicate some other boolean test.
example:
we test if some condition exists every period and perform operation on result of condition...
<!-- Token Database -->
<route autoStartup="true" id="core.predix.tkndependencyCheckerRoute">
<from id="_from2" uri="timer://tkndbAvailable?fixedRate=true&period=30000"/>
<process id="_process2" ref="tkndbAvailableProcessor"/>
</route>
public class TknDbAvailableProcessor implements Processor {
private static final Logger LOG = LoggerFactory.getLogger(TknDbAvailableProcessor.class);
private TKNDataService tknDataService = null;
#Override
public void process(Exchange exchange) throws Exception {
ServiceStatus status = exchange.getContext().getRouteStatus("core.fleet.EnrichmentRoute");
if (null == tknDataService) {
if (status.isStarted()) {
exchange.getContext().stopRoute("core.fleet.EnrichmentRoute");
}
} else {
if (tknDataService.isTKNDataServiceAvailable()) {
if (status.isStopped()) {
exchange.getContext().startRoute("core.fleet.EnrichmentRoute");
}
} else {
if (status.isStarted()) {
exchange.getContext().stopRoute("core.fleet.EnrichmentRoute");
}
}
}
}
public void setDataService(TKNDataService dataService) {
this.tknDataService = dataService;
}
}
If needing a master singleton route if needing redundancy - on diff nodes use a JGroups Cluster with ControlBus
<bean class="org.apache.camel.component.jgroups.JGroupsFilters"
factory-method="dropNonCoordinatorViews"
id="dropNonCoordinatorViews" scope="prototype"/>
<bean class="org.apache.camel.component.jgroups.JGroupsExpressions"
factory-method="delayIfContextNotStarted"
id="delayIfContextNotStarted" scope="prototype">
<argument value="5000"/>
</bean>
<route autoStartup="true" id="FleetMainClusterControlRoute">
<from id="_from2" uri="jgroups:mainCluster?enableViewMessages=true&channelProperties=etc/jgroups.xml"/>
<filter id="filterNonCoordinatorViews">
<method ref="dropNonCoordinatorViews"/>
<threads id="threads1" threadName="ControlThreads">
<delay id="_delay1">
<ref>delayIfContextNotStarted</ref>
<log id="logCR" loggingLevel="INFO" message="Starting Main Cluster consumer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"/>
<to id="_toCR" uri="controlbus:route?routeId=core.predix.tkndependencyCheckerRoute&action=start&async=true"/>
</delay>
</threads>
</filter>
</route>