Apache Camel 4.x Upgrade Guide

This document is for helping you upgrade your Apache Camel application from Camel 4.x to 4.y. For example, if you are upgrading Camel 4.0 to 4.2, then you should follow the guides from both 4.0 to 4.1 and 4.1 to 4.2.

Upgrading Camel 4.6 to 4.7

camel-core

Add default values to ThrottlingExceptionRoutePolicy route policy.

The EndpointRegistry interface has been slightly changed to now directly extends Map<NormalizedEndpointUri, Endpoint> instead of being a parameterized type. This may cause some compilation failures if the code is declaring a variable for the registry.

camel-health

Routes which has are set to not auto-startup are reported as UP in health-checks. We have now implemented similar logic for the consumer health check as well (the route and consumer health check are linked together).

Previously a route that has not been started due to auto-startup=false would still have its consumer health-check being executed, which could lead to DOWN due to consumer failing the check.

DSL

The Load Balancer EIP has aligned naming and the following balancers has been renamed in XML and YAML DSL:

Old Name New Name

failOver

failOverLoadBalancer

random

randomLoadBalancer

roundRobin

roundRobinLoadBalancer

sticky

stickyLoadBalancer

topic

topicLoadBalancer

weighted

weightedLoadBalancer

For example in XML you need to change from:

<route>
  <from uri="direct:start"/>
  <loadBalance>
      <failover>
          <exception>java.io.IOException</exception>
      </failover>
      <to uri="direct:x"/>
      <to uri="direct:y"/>
      <to uri="direct:z"/>
  </loadBalance>
</route>

To:

<route>
  <from uri="direct:start"/>
  <loadBalance>
      <failoverLoadBalancer>
          <exception>java.io.IOException</exception>
      </failoverLoadBalancer>
      <to uri="direct:x"/>
      <to uri="direct:y"/>
      <to uri="direct:z"/>
  </loadBalance>
</route>

camel-debug

The debugger (using org.apache.camel.spi.BacklogDebugger) used for tooling such as IDEA and Visual Studio, is fixed to work better out-of-the-box by just having camel-debug JAR or camel-debug-starter (for Spring Boot) on the classpath.

An internal change is that the MBean operation messageHistoryOnBreakpointAsXml on ManagedBacklogDebugger now includes the current node as last message history, which was expected by IDEA tooling, to make it function again.

camel-spring-security

The camel-spring-security component has been updated to improve readiness for Spring Security 7.x. Since Spring Security 5.8 the AccessDecisionManager interface and the related cooperating classes have been deprecated in favor of AuthorizationManager based patterns. If you are creating Spring Security route policies in your code, you must now refactor them to be based on an AuthorizationManager.

For example, you might have a route policy defined as follows:

SpringSecurityAuthorizationPolicy authorizationPolicy = new SpringSecurityAuthorizationPolicy();
authorizationPolicy.setAuthenticationManager(authenticationManager);
authorizationPolicy.setSpringSecurityAccessPolicy(new SpringSecurityAccessPolicy("ROLE_ADMIN"));
authorizationPolicy.setAccessDecisionManager(new AffirmativeBased(Collections.singletonList(new RoleVoter())));

With the changes implemented in this release, that must be refactored to:

SpringSecurityAuthorizationPolicy authorizationPolicy = new SpringSecurityAuthorizationPolicy();
authorizationPolicy.setAuthenticationManager(authenticationManager);
authorizationPolicy.setAuthorizationManager(AuthorityAuthorizationManager.hasRole("ADMIN"));

This new pattern supports a more expressive language to define your own authorization rules, exposing the full power of the Spring Security framework to Camel route policies. See the spring documentation for further details on how to migrate your custom code from AccessDecisionManager to AuthorizationManager.

camel-as2

The camel-as2 component has been updated so that the client can compress a MIME body before signing or compress a MIME body before signing and encrypting as described in sections 3.2 and 3.5 of rfc 5402.

camel-cloudevents

Moved the camel-cloudevents api into camel-api and removed the camel-cloudevents dependency from all components that provide CloudEvent transformers.

Camel Spring Boot

camel-debug-starter

Using camel debugger with Spring Boot is now moved from camel-spring-boot into camel-debug-starter where you can configure the debugger via camel.debug. options in application.properties.

The camel-debug-starter now has camel.debug.enabled=true by default to let the debugger be installed out of the box, by having the JAR on the classpath (as intended). You can turn this off via camel.debug.enabled=false.

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