Filter using org.apache.camel.component.file.GenericFileFilter

Camel supports pluggable filtering strategies. You can then configure the endpoint with such a filter to skip certain files being processed.

In the sample we have built our own filter that skips files starting with skip in the filename:

public class MyFileFilter implements GenericFileFilter {
   public boolean accept(GenericFile pathname) {
      // we don't accept any files starting with skip in the name
      return !pathname.getFileName().startsWith("skip");
   }
}

Then we can configure our route using the filter attribute to reference our filter (using # notation) that we have defines in the Spring XML file:

<!-- define our sorter as a plain Spring bean -->
<bean id="myFilter" class="com.mycompany.MyFileSorter"/>

<route>
   <from uri="file://inbox?filter=#myFilter"/>
   <to uri="bean:processInbox"/>
</route>

Filtering using ANT path matcher

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There are also antInclude and antExclude options to make it easy to specify ANT style include/exclude without having to define the filter. See the URI options above for more information.

The ANT path matcher is shipped out-of-the-box in the camel-spring jar. So you need to depend on camel-spring if you are using Maven. The reason is that we leverage Spring's AntPathMatcher to do the matching.

The file paths is matched with the following rules:

? matches one character
* matches zero or more characters
** matches zero or more directories in a path

The sample below demonstrates how to use it:

<camelContext xmlns="http://camel.apache.org/schema/spring">
   <template id="camelTemplate"/>

   <!-- use myFilter as filter to allow setting 
         ANT paths for which files to scan for -->
   <endpoint id="myFileEndpoint" uri=
      "file://target/antpathmatcher?recursive=true&filter=#myAntFilter"/>

   <route>
      <from ref="myFileEndpoint"/>
      <to uri="mock:result"/>
   </route>
</camelContext>

<!-- we use the antpath file filter to use Ant paths -->
<!-- for includes and excludes -->
<bean id="myAntFilter" 
   class="org.apache.camel.component.file.AntPathMatcherGenericFileFilter">
   <!-- include and file in the subfolder that has 'day' in the name -->
   <property name="includes" value="**/subfolder/**/*day*"/>
   <!-- exclude all files with 'bad' in name or .xml files. -->
   <!-- Use comma to separate multiple excludes -->
   <property name="excludes" value="**/*bad*,**/*.xml"/>
</bean>

Filter using org.apache.camel.component.file.GenericFileFilter - 6.3

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Filtering using ANT path matcher

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