Camel-Restlet producer message body is null - apache-camel

Question

When invoking a rest endpoint using camel-restlet, the post body is not set.
Here is my blueprint.xml
<camelContext id="blueprint-bean-context-SF"
xmlns="http://camel.apache.org/schema/blueprint">
<route id="Camel-Restlet-Client">
<from uri="timer://example?repeatCount=1&period=1000" />
<setHeader headerName="Content-Type">
<constant>application/json</constant>
</setHeader>
<setHeader headerName="api-key">
<constant>{{drupal-api-key}}</constant>
</setHeader>
<setBody><constant>{name: "paul rudd", movies: ["I Love You Man", "Role Models"]}</constant></setBody>
<log message="Request: ${headers} \n ${body}" />
<to uri="restlet:https://reqres.in/api/users?restletMethod=POST" />
<log message="Response: ${headers} \n ${body}" />
</route>
</camelContext>
I am using camel 2.20.1. Any help is appreciated?

Answer 1

I am new to cmel myself, but i would guess the problem is the setHeader you are using. Because setHeader sets the header of the Camel-Message, not the header of the http-request which gets send over the wire. You would need to set a header on the message, that would be known by restlet. And restlet would transport the value of the setheader to the theader of the http-request.
Sorry but I dont how to do that. The following coding works, using the Header for authentification:
restConfiguration("restlet").bindingMode(RestBindingMode.json); // use json for all
from("timer://example?repeatCount=1&period=1000")
.setHeader("CamelRestletLogin", constant("xxx"))
.setHeader("CamelRestletPassword", constant("xxx"))
.to("restlet:https://xxx.hana.ondemand.com:443/ain/services/api/v1/models")
Sry I couldnt help more.