Nats

Send and receive messages from NATS messaging system.

What’s inside

Please refer to the above links for usage and configuration details.

Maven coordinates

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.apache.camel.springboot</groupId>
    <artifactId>camel-nats-starter</artifactId>
</dependency>

Spring Boot Auto-Configuration

The starter supports 45 options, which are listed below.

Name Description Default Type

camel.component.nats.ack-policy

Acknowledgement mode. none = Messages are acknowledged as soon as the server sends them (danger: messages that Camel failed to process is also ack). Clients do not need to ack. all = All messages with a sequence number less than the message acked are also acknowledged. E.g. reading a batch of messages 1..100. Ack on message 100 will acknowledge 1..99 as well. explicit (default) = Each message is acknowledged individually by Camel after the message has been processed, this ensures the message is only ack if success and nack if processing failed due to an exception during routing. Message can be acked out of sequence and create gaps of unacknowledged messages in the consumer.

explicit

AckPolicy

camel.component.nats.ack-wait

After a message is delivered to a consumer, the server waits 30 seconds (default) for an acknowledgement. If none arrives (timeout), the message becomes eligible for redelivery.

30000

Long

camel.component.nats.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.nats.bridge-error-handler

Allows for bridging the consumer to the Camel routing Error Handler, which mean any exceptions (if possible) occurred while the Camel consumer is trying to pickup incoming messages, or the likes, will now be processed as a message and handled by the routing Error Handler. Important: This is only possible if the 3rd party component allows Camel to be alerted if an exception was thrown. Some components handle this internally only, and therefore bridgeErrorHandler is not possible. In other situations we may improve the Camel component to hook into the 3rd party component and make this possible for future releases. By default the consumer will use the org.apache.camel.spi.ExceptionHandler to deal with exceptions, that will be logged at WARN or ERROR level and ignored.

false

Boolean

camel.component.nats.configuration

To use a shared configuration. The option is a org.apache.camel.component.nats.NatsConfiguration type.

NatsConfiguration

camel.component.nats.connection

Reference an already instantiated connection to Nats server. The option is a io.nats.client.Connection type.

Connection

camel.component.nats.connection-timeout

Timeout for connection attempts. (in milliseconds)

2000

Integer

camel.component.nats.consumer-configuration

Sets a custom ConsumerConfiguration object for the JetStream consumer. This is an advanced option typically used when you need to configure properties not exposed as simple Camel URI parameters. When set, this object will be used to build the final consumer subscription options. The option is a io.nats.client.api.ConsumerConfiguration type.

ConsumerConfiguration

camel.component.nats.credentials-file-path

If we use useCredentialsFile to true we’ll need to set the credentialsFilePath option. It can be loaded by default from classpath, but you can prefix with classpath:, file:, or http: to load the resource from different systems.

String

camel.component.nats.durable-name

Sets the name to assign to the JetStream durable consumer. Setting this value makes the consumer durable. The value is used to set the durable() field in the underlying NATS ConsumerConfiguration.Builder.

String

camel.component.nats.enabled

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

Boolean

camel.component.nats.flush-connection

Define if we want to flush connection when stopping or not

true

Boolean

camel.component.nats.flush-timeout

Set the flush timeout (in milliseconds)

1000

Integer

camel.component.nats.header-filter-strategy

To use a custom header filter strategy. The option is a org.apache.camel.spi.HeaderFilterStrategy type.

HeaderFilterStrategy

camel.component.nats.jetstream-async

Sets whether to operate JetStream requests asynchronously.

true

Boolean

camel.component.nats.jetstream-enabled

Sets whether to enable JetStream support for this endpoint.

false

Boolean

camel.component.nats.jetstream-name

Sets the name of the JetStream stream to use.

String

camel.component.nats.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

camel.component.nats.manual-ack

Whether to allow doing manual acknowledgment via NatsManualAck. If this option is enabled then an instance of NatsManualAck is stored on the org.apache.camel.Exchange message header, which allows end users to access this API and perform manual ack/nak/term operations via the JetStream consumer. When enabled, the automatic acknowledgment on exchange completion is disabled. If the user does not call any ack method, the message remains unacknowledged and NATS will redeliver it after the ackWait timeout expires. This option is only applicable when JetStream is enabled (jetstreamEnabled=true). It has no effect when ackPolicy=None since the server acknowledges messages automatically on delivery.

false

Boolean

camel.component.nats.max-deliver

Maximum number of attempts to deliver a message from Nats to a consumer. Once MaxDeliver is reached, the NATS server stops attempting to deliver that specific message. The message is not deleted, it remains in the stream but is simply skipped. It is recommended to set this option to a sensible value in case a message is poison and can not successfully be processed and would always keep failing.

Long

camel.component.nats.max-messages

Stop receiving messages from a topic we are subscribing to after maxMessages

String

camel.component.nats.max-pings-out

maximum number of pings have not received a response allowed by the client

2

Integer

camel.component.nats.max-reconnect-attempts

Max reconnection attempts

60

Integer

camel.component.nats.nack-wait

For negative acknowledgements (NAK), redelivery is delayed by 5 seconds (default). Setting this to 0 or negative makes the redelivery immediately. Be careful as this can cause the consumer to keep re-processing the same message over and over again due to intermediate error that last a while.

5000

Long

camel.component.nats.no-echo

Turn off echo. If supported by the gnatsd version you are connecting to this flag will prevent the server from echoing messages back to the connection if it has subscriptions on the subject being published to.

false

Boolean

camel.component.nats.no-randomize-servers

Whether or not randomizing the order of servers for the connection attempts

false

Boolean

camel.component.nats.pedantic

Whether or not running in pedantic mode (this affects performance)

false

Boolean

camel.component.nats.ping-interval

Ping interval to be aware if connection is still alive (in milliseconds)

120000

Integer

camel.component.nats.pool-size

Consumer thread pool size (default is 10)

10

Integer

camel.component.nats.pull-batch-size

Maximum number of messages to fetch per pull request when using a JetStream Pull Subscription. Only used when \{code pullSubscription=true}.

10

Integer

camel.component.nats.pull-fetch-timeout

Maximum time (in milliseconds) to wait for a batch of messages to be available on the server during a single fetch when using a JetStream Pull Subscription. Only used when \{code pullSubscription=true}.

1000

Long

camel.component.nats.pull-subscription

Sets the consumer subscription type for JetStream. Set to true to use a Pull Subscription (consumer explicitly requests messages). Set to false to use a Push Subscription (messages are automatically delivered).

true

Boolean

camel.component.nats.queue-name

The Queue name if we are using nats for a queue configuration

String

camel.component.nats.reconnect

Whether or not using reconnection feature

true

Boolean

camel.component.nats.reconnect-time-wait

Waiting time before attempts reconnection (in milliseconds)

2000

Integer

camel.component.nats.reply-subject

the subject to which subscribers should send response

String

camel.component.nats.reply-to-disabled

Can be used to turn off sending back reply message in the consumer.

false

Boolean

camel.component.nats.request-cleanup-interval

Interval to clean up cancelled/timed out requests.

5000

Integer

camel.component.nats.request-timeout

Request timeout in milliseconds

20000

Long

camel.component.nats.secure

Set secure option indicating TLS is required

false

Boolean

camel.component.nats.servers

URLs to one or more NAT servers. Use comma to separate URLs when specifying multiple servers.

String

camel.component.nats.ssl-context-parameters

To configure security using SSLContextParameters. The option is a org.apache.camel.support.jsse.SSLContextParameters type.

SSLContextParameters

camel.component.nats.trace-connection

Whether or not connection trace messages should be printed to standard out for fine grained debugging of connection issues.

false

Boolean

camel.component.nats.use-global-ssl-context-parameters

Enable usage of global SSL context parameters.

false

Boolean

camel.component.nats.verbose

Whether or not running in verbose mode

false

Boolean