Camel onException redelivery Clarification - apache-camel

So I'm a little unsure of how this will work. I have a "Broken Pipe" Exception that occurs every now and then. It triggers 2 exceptions to be thrown (according to the log): org.apache.camel.component.file.GenericFileOperationFailedException due to the file not being able to reach its endpoint and java.net.SocketException because that is the root cause of why the file wasn't able to reach the endpoint.
So to deal with that I have an an <onException> block that looks like this:
<onException>
<exception>org.apache.camel.component.file.GenericFileOperationFailedException</exception>
<exception>java.net.SocketException</exception>
<redeliveryPolicy maximumRedeliveries="2" redeliveryDelay="5000"/>
</onException>
So from what I understand Camel should select the GenericFileOperationFailedException and then try to perform 2 Redeliveries, 5000 milliseconds apart.
Well then what happens if it is unable to redeliver in those 2 attempts, will Camel then select the SocketException due to the nature of the error thrown?
Meaning Camel will attempt 4 total redeliveries, taking up a total of 20000 milliseconds?

Camel will initially select on based on the order you have written them. "..the order in which the onException is configured takes precedence. Camel will test from first...last defined."
Straight from the documentation:
So if an exception is thrown with this hierarchy:
+ RuntimeCamelException (wrapper exception by Camel) + OrderFailedException
+ IOException
+ FileNotFoundException
Then Camel will try testing the exception in this order:
FileNotFoundException, IOException, OrderFailedException and
RuntimeCamelException. As we have defined a
onException(IOException.class) Camel will select this as it's the
closest match.
So based on the example, I would assume that
SocketException
will get triggered and redelivery started because it has an exact match and it is lower down in the stacktrace which Camel starts finding matches from.

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Setting handled as true in onException block prevents redeliveries

I am reading a file from a directory, and trying to call an API based on the data in the file.
While trying to handle the exceptions, I am facing an issue. I am trying to configure the onException block to redeliver 3 times, with a delay of 5 seconds. The issue occurs, when I am setting handled(true). This configuration does not redeliver, and stops as soon as the exception occurs.
This is my onException block:
onException(HttpOperationFailedException.class)
.log(LoggingLevel.ERROR, logger, "Error occurred while connecting to API for file ${header.CamelFileName} :: ${exception.message}")
.log("redelivery counter :: ${header.CamelRedeliveryCounter}")
.maximumRedeliveries(3)
.redeliveryDelay(5000)
.handled(true);
How do I do both, i.e. handle as well as redeliver?
Unless you use a buggy version of Camel, the redeliveries are made as expected whatever if it is handled or not.
The only difference between handled or not, is the fact that the result sent back to the client once the retries are exhausted will be either the exception (not handled) or the result of your onException (handled).
Your mistake here, is the fact that you assume that the log EIPs that you have defined in your onException are called for each retry while they are actually called only when the retries are exhausted.
If you want to see the retries in your logs, you can use retryAttemptedLogLevel as next:
onException(HttpOperationFailedException.class)
.maximumRedeliveries(3)
.redeliveryDelay(5000)
.retryAttemptedLogLevel(LoggingLevel.WARN);
You will then get warning messages of type:
Failed delivery for (MessageId: X on ExchangeId: Y). On delivery attempt: Z caught: ...

Camel appears to ignore onException instruction - what am I doing wrong?

I have a Camel (2.21.2) route that gets an XML file via FTP and then splits it before processing further, somewhat like...
from("direct-vm:start")
.split()
.xtokenize("*/row", 'w', ns)
.streaming()
...
If an empty file is passed, I am getting a com.ctc.wstx.exc.WstxEOFException raised by the xtokenize step I presume, which seems perfectly reasonable.
However, when I try to put in an onException clause, it doesn't seem to be catching the exception.
I have:
onException(com.ctc.wstx.exc.WstxEOFException.class)
.handled(true)
.log(org.apache.camel.LoggingLevel.INFO,
"myLogger",
"File ${header.CamelFileName} is empty or invalid XML");
and yet the exception is resulting in the route failing with the exception, and my handler log message is never produced.
However, if I change the onException clause to java.lang.Exception.class, it does handle the exception.
I don't want this to handle any exception, just the one caused by an empty or incomplete file.
What I am doing wrong here? How do I get onException to handle only the exception I am interested in?
Thanks for looking!

Having access to entire soap:body when service call returns soap:fault

I'm building a route that sends a SOAP request to a webservice. For achieving that, I wrote this code.
.doTry()
.inOut(getEndpointDocumentWS())
.log("Response WHEN OKAY: ${body}")
.process(Document_WS_REPLY_PROCESSOR)
.endDoTry()
.doCatch(Exception.class)
.log(LoggingLevel.INFO, "SOAP REPLY WITH FAULTMESSAGE")
.log("Response ON ERROR FAULT: ${body}")
.process(Document_WS_REPLY_ERROR_PROCESSOR)
.end();
Everything goes as planned when the service response is "okay". Otherwise, when the service response is a soap:Fault, I'm not having access to all of the response (I am using soapUI to mock the soap:Fault response).
I can access a tiny fraction of the soap:fault by getting the EXCEPTION_CAUGHT property.
The instruction
.log("Response ON ERROR FAULT: ${body}")
Has no data at all.
What can I do differently to have access to all the instead of only the faultstring?
Exception exception = exchange.getProperty(Exchange.EXCEPTION_CAUGHT,
Exception.class);
According to this answer, Camel's CXF component not catching onException(Exception.class):
Camel's onException only triggeres if there is an exception. A SOAP
Fault is represented as a Message with the fault flag = true.
What you can do is to set handleFault=true on CamelContext, then it
will turn SOAP fault messages into an exception that the onException
can react upon.
Assuming you have not configured handleFault=true, then it's odd that your exception handler is running at all. It could be that some other exception, not the Fault you're looking for, is occurring which causes the exception handler to run.
If you have already configured handleFault=true, I don't have any advice except inspect the data objects in a debugger to see if you can find out what's going on. (If you don't know, to do this you can add a Processor to your exception handler and insert a break point inside the Processor. Break points don't work in route definition because route definitions are only run on initialization.)

Camel errorHandler / deadLetterChannel REST response

I have a Camel rest endpoint (Jetty) which validates and processes incoming requests. Besides specific Exception handlers (onException) it uses a DLQ error handler (errorHandler(deadLetterChannel...)) which is setup to retry 3 times - if unsuccessful the message is moved to the DLQ.
My question is, how do I still return a user friendly error message back to the client if an unexpected Exception occurs rather than the full Exception body? Is there some config I'm missing on the errorHandler?
I've tried to find some examples on the camel unit tests (DeadLetterChannelHandledExampleTest) and camel in action 2 (Chapter 11) but none seemed to have specific examples for this scenario.
Code is:
.from(ROUTE_URI)
.errorHandler(deadLetterChannel("{{activemq.webhook.dlq.queue}}")
.onPrepareFailure(new FailureProcessor())
.maximumRedeliveries(3)
.redeliveryDelay(1000))
.bean(ParcelProcessor.class, "process");
Thank you for your help!
Use a 2nd route as the DLQ, eg direct:dead and then send the message first to the real DLQ, and then do the message transformation afterwards to return a friendly response.
errorHandler(deadLetterChannel("direct:dead")
from("direct:dead")
.to("{{activemq.webhook.dlq.queue}}")
.transform(constant("Sorry something was wrong"));

onCompletion in Camel 2.14

I'd like to wrap the result of a processed message into some reply-object to answer a webservice. This is my test-route:
this.from("cxf:someEndpoint")
.process(new SomeProcessorThatMightThrowAnException())
.process(new SomeOtherProcessorThatMightThrowAnException())
.log("normal end of route");
Nevermind if there was an exception or not, the result should be wrapped in some object, that is given back to the caller of my ws.
In camel 2.13.x I did this by adding an other processor to the end of the route and to do the same in 'onException'.
Now I tried to simplify this (technical thing and handle it outside of the 'functional route') in camel 2.14 (2.14 because of 'modeBeforeConsumer'), and added this to my routebuilder:
onCompletion()
.modeBeforeConsumer()
.process(new ConvertToWsReplyProcessor());
This ConvertToWsReplyProcessor should handle an Exception, but I found no way to see, if there was an Exception, because exchange.getProperty(Exchange.EXCEPTION_CAUGHT, Throwable.class) is allways null.
Questions:
1) Is there a way to find out if there was an excetion in onCompletion()?
2) The only way I found to prevent camel from dumping a stacktrace is to use onException(Ex...).handled(true), are there others?
3) How are these onXY processed? Do they get a copy of the exchange? And is onCompletion called last?
OnCompletionProcessor just remove some exchange properties before processing the exchange, that could explain why you cannot fine the exception here.
As camel use onException to handle the exception, I'm afraid you have to do it that way.

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