Stitch

Since Camel 3.8

Only producer is supported

Stitch is a cloud ETL service, a developer-focused platform for rapidly moving and replicates data from more than 90 applications and databases. It integrates various data sources into a central data warehouse. Stitch has integrations for many enterprise software data sources, and can receive data via WebHooks and an API (Stitch Import API) which Camel Stitch Component uses to produce the data to Stitch ETL.

For more info, feel free to visit their website

Maven users will need to add the following dependency to their pom.xml for this component:

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.apache.camel</groupId>
    <artifactId>camel-stitch</artifactId>
    <version>x.x.x</version>
  <!-- use the same version as your Camel core version -->
</dependency>

URI format

stitch:[tableName]//[?options]

Configuring Options

Camel components are configured on two separate levels:

  • component level

  • endpoint level

Configuring Component Options

At the component level, you set general and shared configurations that are, then, inherited by the endpoints. It is the highest configuration level.

For example, a component may have security settings, credentials for authentication, urls for network connection and so forth.

Some components only have a few options, and others may have many. Because components typically have pre-configured defaults that are commonly used, then you may often only need to configure a few options on a component; or none at all.

You can configure components using:

  • the Component DSL.

  • in a configuration file (application.properties, *.yaml files, etc).

  • directly in the Java code.

Configuring Endpoint Options

You usually spend more time setting up endpoints because they have many options. These options help you customize what you want the endpoint to do. The options are also categorized into whether the endpoint is used as a consumer (from), as a producer (to), or both.

Configuring endpoints is most often done directly in the endpoint URI as path and query parameters. You can also use the Endpoint DSL and DataFormat DSL as a type safe way of configuring endpoints and data formats in Java.

A good practice when configuring options is to use Property Placeholders.

Property placeholders provide a few benefits:

  • They help prevent using hardcoded urls, port numbers, sensitive information, and other settings.

  • They allow externalizing the configuration from the code.

  • They help the code to become more flexible and reusable.

The following two sections list all the options, firstly for the component followed by the endpoint.

Component Options

The Stitch component supports 10 options, which are listed below.

Name Description Default Type

configuration (producer)

The component configurations.

StitchConfiguration

keyNames (producer)

A collection of comma separated strings representing the Primary Key fields in the source table. Stitch use these Primary Keys to de-dupe data during loading If not provided, the table will be loaded in an append-only manner.

String

lazyStartProducer (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

region (producer)

Stitch account region, e.g: europe.

Enum values:

  • NORTH_AMERICA

  • EUROPE

EUROPE

StitchRegion

stitchSchema (producer)

Autowired A schema that describes the record(s).

StitchSchema

connectionProvider (producer (advanced))

Autowired ConnectionProvider contain configuration for the HttpClient like Maximum connection limit .. etc, you can inject this ConnectionProvider and the StitchClient will initialize HttpClient with this ConnectionProvider.

ConnectionProvider

httpClient (producer (advanced))

Autowired Reactor Netty HttpClient, you can injected it if you want to have custom HttpClient.

HttpClient

autowiredEnabled (advanced)

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

stitchClient (advanced)

Autowired Set a custom StitchClient that implements org.apache.camel.component.stitch.client.StitchClient interface.

StitchClient

token (security)

Required Stitch access token for the Stitch Import API.

String

Endpoint Options

The Stitch endpoint is configured using URI syntax:

stitch:tableName

With the following path and query parameters:

Path Parameters (1 parameters)

Name Description Default Type

tableName (producer)

The name of the destination table the data is being pushed to. Table names must be unique in each destination schema, or loading issues will occur. Note: The number of characters in the table name should be within the destination’s allowed limits or data will rejected.

String

Query Parameters (8 parameters)

Name Description Default Type

keyNames (producer)

A collection of comma separated strings representing the Primary Key fields in the source table. Stitch use these Primary Keys to de-dupe data during loading If not provided, the table will be loaded in an append-only manner.

String

region (producer)

Stitch account region, e.g: europe.

Enum values:

  • NORTH_AMERICA

  • EUROPE

EUROPE

StitchRegion

stitchSchema (producer)

Autowired A schema that describes the record(s).

StitchSchema

connectionProvider (producer (advanced))

Autowired ConnectionProvider contain configuration for the HttpClient like Maximum connection limit .. etc, you can inject this ConnectionProvider and the StitchClient will initialize HttpClient with this ConnectionProvider.

ConnectionProvider

httpClient (producer (advanced))

Autowired Reactor Netty HttpClient, you can injected it if you want to have custom HttpClient.

HttpClient

lazyStartProducer (producer (advanced))

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

stitchClient (advanced)

Autowired Set a custom StitchClient that implements org.apache.camel.component.stitch.client.StitchClient interface.

StitchClient

token (security)

Required Stitch access token for the Stitch Import API.

String

Message Headers

The Stitch component supports 6 message header(s), which is/are listed below:

Name Description Default Type

CamelStitchTableName (producer)

Constant: TABLE_NAME

The name of the destination table the data is being pushed to. Table names must be unique in each destination schema, or loading issues will occur. Note: The number of characters in the table name should be within the destinations allowed limits or data will rejected.

String

CamelStitchSchema (producer)

Constant: SCHEMA

The schema that describes the Stitch message.

StitchSchema or Map

CamelStitchKeyNames (producer)

Constant: KEY_NAMES

A collection of strings representing the Primary Key fields in the source table. Stitch use these Primary Keys to de-dupe data during loading If not provided, the table will be loaded in an append-only manner.

Collection

CamelStitchCode (producer)

Constant: CODE

HTTP Status code that is returned from Stitch Import HTTP API.

Integer

CamelStitchHeaders (producer)

Constant: HEADERS

HTTP headers that are returned from Stitch Import HTTP API.

Map

CamelStitchStatus (producer)

Constant: STATUS

The status message that Stitch returns after sending the data through Stitch Import API.

String

Usage

Prerequisites

You must have a valid Stitch account, you will need to enable Stitch Import API and generate a token for the integration, for more info, please find more info here.

Async Producer

This component implements the async Consumer and producer.

This allows camel route to consume and produce events asynchronously without blocking any threads.

Example showing how to produce data to Stitch from a custom processor:
from("direct:sendStitch")
     .process(exchange -> {
         final StitchMessage stitchMessage = StitchMessage.builder()
               .withData("field_1", "stitchMessage2-1")
               .build();

         final StitchRequestBody stitchRequestBody = StitchRequestBody.builder()
                .addMessage(stitchMessage)
                .withSchema(StitchSchema.builder().addKeyword("field_1", "string").build())
                .withTableName("table_1")
                .withKeyNames(Collections.singleton("field_1"))
                .build();

                exchange.getMessage().setBody(stitchRequestBody);
     })
.to("stitch:table_1?token=RAW({{token}})");

Message body type

Currently, the component supports the following types for the body message on the producer side when producing a message to Stitch component:

  • org.apache.camel.component.stitch.client.models.StitchRequestBody: This represents this Stitch JSON Message. However, StitchRequestBody includes a type safe builder that helps on building the request body. Please note that, tableName, keyNames and schema options are no longer required if you send the data with StitchRequestBody, if you still set these options, they override whatever being set in message body StitchRequestBody.

  • org.apache.camel.component.stitch.client.models.StitchMessage: This represents this Stitch message structure. If you choose to send your message as StitchMessage, you will need to add tableName, keyNames and schema options to either the Exchange headers or through the endpoint options.

  • Map: You can also send the data as Map, the data structure must follow this JSON Message structure which is similar to StitchRequestBody but with drawback losing on all the type safety builder that is included with StitchRequestBody.

  • Iterable: You can send multiple Stitch messages that are aggregated by Camel or aggregated through custom processor. These aggregated messages can be type of StitchMessage, StitchRequestBody or Map but this Map here is similar to StitchMessage.

Examples

Here is list of examples showing data that can be proceeded to Stitch:

Input body type org.apache.camel.component.stitch.client.models.StitchRequestBody:

from("direct:sendStitch")
     .process(exchange -> {
         final StitchMessage stitchMessage = StitchMessage.builder()
               .withData("field_1", "stitchMessage2-1")
               .build();

         final StitchRequestBody stitchRequestBody = StitchRequestBody.builder()
                .addMessage(stitchMessage)
                .withSchema(StitchSchema.builder().addKeyword("field_1", "string").build())
                .withTableName("table_1")
                .withKeyNames(Collections.singleton("field_1"))
                .build();

                exchange.getMessage().setBody(stitchRequestBody);
     })
.to("stitch:table_1?token=RAW({{token}})");

Input body type org.apache.camel.component.stitch.client.models.StitchMessage:

from("direct:sendStitch")
     .process(exchange -> {
         exchange.getMessage().setHeader(StitchConstants.SCHEMA, StitchSchema.builder().addKeyword("field_1", "string").build());
         exchange.getMessage().setHeader(StitchConstants.KEY_NAMES, "field_1");
         exchange.getMessage().setHeader(StitchConstants.TABLE_NAME, "table_1");

         final StitchMessage stitchMessage = StitchMessage.builder()
               .withData("field_1", "stitchMessage2-1")
               .build();

                exchange.getMessage().setBody(stitchMessage);
     })
.to("stitch:table_1?token=RAW({{token}})");

Input body type Map:

from("direct:sendStitch")
     .process(exchange -> {
        final Map<String, Object> properties = new LinkedHashMap<>();
        properties.put("id", Collections.singletonMap("type", "integer"));
        properties.put("name", Collections.singletonMap("type", "string"));
        properties.put("age", Collections.singletonMap("type", "integer"));
        properties.put("has_magic", Collections.singletonMap("type", "boolean"));

        final Map<String, Object> data = new LinkedHashMap<>();
        data.put(StitchRequestBody.TABLE_NAME, "my_table");
        data.put(StitchRequestBody.SCHEMA, Collections.singletonMap("properties", properties));
        data.put(StitchRequestBody.MESSAGES,
                Collections.singletonList(Collections.singletonMap("data", Collections.singletonMap("id", 2))));
        data.put(StitchRequestBody.KEY_NAMES, "test_key");

        exchange.getMessage().setBody(data);
     })
.to("stitch:table_1?token=RAW({{token}})");

Input body type Iterable:

from("direct:sendStitch")
     .process(exchange -> {
         exchange.getMessage().setHeader(StitchConstants.SCHEMA, StitchSchema.builder().addKeyword("field_1", "string").build());
         exchange.getMessage().setHeader(StitchConstants.KEY_NAMES, "field_1");
         exchange.getMessage().setHeader(StitchConstants.TABLE_NAME, "table_1");

        final StitchMessage stitchMessage1 = StitchMessage.builder()
                .withData("field_1", "stitchMessage1")
                .build();

        final StitchMessage stitchMessage2 = StitchMessage.builder()
                .withData("field_1", "stitchMessage2-1")
                .build();

        final StitchRequestBody stitchMessage2RequestBody = StitchRequestBody.builder()
                .addMessage(stitchMessage2)
                .withSchema(StitchSchema.builder().addKeyword("field_1", "integer").build())
                .withTableName("table_1")
                .withKeyNames(Collections.singleton("field_1"))
                .build();

        final Map<String, Object> stitchMessage3 = new LinkedHashMap<>();
        stitchMessage3.put(StitchMessage.DATA, Collections.singletonMap("field_1", "stitchMessage3"));

        final StitchMessage stitchMessage4 = StitchMessage.builder()
                .withData("field_1", "stitchMessage4")
                .build();

        final Exchange stitchMessage4Exchange = new DefaultExchange(context);
        stitchMessage4Exchange.getMessage().setBody(stitchMessage4);

        final StitchMessage stitchMessage5 = StitchMessage.builder()
                .withData("field_1", "stitchMessage5")
                .build();

        final Message stitchMessage5Message = new DefaultExchange(context).getMessage();
        stitchMessage5Message.setBody(stitchMessage5);

        final List<Object> inputMessages = new LinkedList<>();
        inputMessages.add(stitchMessage1);
        inputMessages.add(stitchMessage2RequestBody);
        inputMessages.add(stitchMessage3);
        inputMessages.add(stitchMessage4Exchange);
        inputMessages.add(stitchMessage5Message);

        exchange.getMessage().setBody(inputMessages);
     })
.to("stitch:table_1?token=RAW({{token}})");

Development Notes (Important)

When developing on this component, you will need to obtain a Stitch token to run the integration tests. In addition to the mocked unit tests, you will need to run the integration tests with every change you make To run the integration tests, in this component directory, run the following maven command:

mvn verify -Dtoken=stitchToken

Whereby token is your Stitch token generated for Stitch Import API integration.

Spring Boot Auto-Configuration

When using stitch with Spring Boot make sure to use the following Maven dependency to have support for auto configuration:

<dependency>
  <groupId>org.apache.camel.springboot</groupId>
  <artifactId>camel-stitch-starter</artifactId>
  <version>x.x.x</version>
  <!-- use the same version as your Camel core version -->
</dependency>

The component supports 11 options, which are listed below.

Name Description Default Type

camel.component.stitch.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.stitch.configuration

The component configurations. The option is a org.apache.camel.component.stitch.StitchConfiguration type.

StitchConfiguration

camel.component.stitch.connection-provider

ConnectionProvider contain configuration for the HttpClient like Maximum connection limit .. etc, you can inject this ConnectionProvider and the StitchClient will initialize HttpClient with this ConnectionProvider. The option is a reactor.netty.resources.ConnectionProvider type.

ConnectionProvider

camel.component.stitch.enabled

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

Boolean

camel.component.stitch.http-client

Reactor Netty HttpClient, you can injected it if you want to have custom HttpClient. The option is a reactor.netty.http.client.HttpClient type.

HttpClient

camel.component.stitch.key-names

A collection of comma separated strings representing the Primary Key fields in the source table. Stitch use these Primary Keys to de-dupe data during loading If not provided, the table will be loaded in an append-only manner.

String

camel.component.stitch.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.stitch.region

Stitch account region, e.g: europe.

europe

StitchRegion

camel.component.stitch.stitch-client

Set a custom StitchClient that implements org.apache.camel.component.stitch.client.StitchClient interface. The option is a org.apache.camel.component.stitch.client.StitchClient type.

StitchClient

camel.component.stitch.stitch-schema

A schema that describes the record(s). The option is a org.apache.camel.component.stitch.client.models.StitchSchema type.

StitchSchema

camel.component.stitch.token

Stitch access token for the Stitch Import API.

String
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