JDBC Component
The jdbc component enables you to access databases through JDBC, where SQL queries and operations are sent in the message body. This component uses the standard JDBC API, unlike the SQL Component component, which uses spring-jdbc.
Maven users will need to add the following dependency to their pom.xml for this component:
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.camel</groupId>
<artifactId>camel-jdbc</artifactId>
<version>x.x.x</version>
<!-- use the same version as your Camel core version -->
</dependency>
![]() | This component can only be used to define producer endpoints, which means that you cannot use the JDBC component in a from() statement. |
URI format
jdbc:dataSourceName[?options]
This component only supports producer endpoints.
You can append query options to the URI in the following format, ?option=value&option=value&...
Options
Name |
Default Value |
Description |
readSize |
0 |
The default maximum number of rows that can be read by a polling query. The default value is 0. |
statement.<xxx> |
null |
Camel 2.1: Sets additional options on the java.sql.Statement that is used behind the scenes to execute the queries. For instance, statement.maxRows=10. For detailed documentation, see the java.sql.Statement javadoc documentation. |
useJDBC4ColumnNameAndLabelSemantics |
true |
Camel 2.2: Sets whether to use JDBC 4/3 column label/name semantics. You can use this option to turn it false in case you have issues with your JDBC driver to select data. This only applies when using SQL SELECT using aliases (e.g. SQL SELECT id as identifier, name as given_name from persons). |
resetAutoCommit |
true |
Camel 2.9: Camel will set the autoCommit on the JDBC connection to be false, commit the change after executed the statement and reset the autoCommit flag of the connection at the end, if the resetAutoCommit is true. If the JDBC connection doesn't support to reset the autoCommit flag, you can set the resetAutoCommit flag to be false, and Camel will not try to reset the autoCommit flag. |
allowNamedParameters |
true |
Camel 2.12: Whether to allow using named parameters in the queries. |
prepareStatementStrategy |
|
Camel 2.12: Allows to plugin to use a custom org.apache.camel.component.jdbc.JdbcPrepareStatementStrategy to control preparation of the query and prepared statement. |
useHeadersAsParameters |
false |
Camel 2.12: Set this option to true to use the prepareStatementStrategy with named parameters. This allows to define queries with named placeholders, and use headers with the dynamic values for the query placeholders. |
Result
The result is returned in the OUT body as an ArrayList<HashMap<String, Object>>. The List object contains the list of rows and the Map objects contain each row with the String key as the column name.
Note: This component fetches ResultSetMetaData to be able to return the column name as the key in the Map.
Message Headers
Header |
Description |
CamelJdbcRowCount |
If the query is a SELECT, query the row count is returned in this OUT header. |
CamelJdbcUpdateCount |
If the query is an UPDATE, query the update count is returned in this OUT header. |
CamelGeneratedKeysRows |
Camel 2.10: Rows that contains the generated kets. |
CamelGeneratedKeysRowCount |
Camel 2.10: The number of rows in the header that contains generated keys. |
CamelJdbcColumnNames |
Camel 2.11.1: The column names from the ResultSet as a java.util.Set type. |
CamelJdbcParametes |
Camel 2.12: A java.util.Map which has the headers to be used if useHeadersAsParameters has been enabled. |
Generated keys
Available as of Camel 2.10
If you insert data using SQL INSERT, then the RDBMS may support auto generated keys. You can instruct the JDBC producer to return the generated keys in headers.
To do that set the header CamelRetrieveGeneratedKeys=true. Then the generated keys will be provided as headers with the keys listed in the table above.
You can see more details in this unit test.
![]() | Using generated keys does not work with together with named parameters. |
Using named parameters
Available as of Camel 2.12
In the given route below, we want to get all the projects from the projects table. Notice the SQL query has 2 named parameters, :?lic and :?min.
Camel will then lookup these parameters from the message headers. Notice in the example above we set two headers with constant value
for the named parameters:
from("direct:projects")
.setHeader("lic", constant("ASF"))
.setHeader("min", constant(123))
.setBody("select * from projects where license = :?lic and id > :?min order by id")
.to("jdbc:myDataSource?useHeadersAsParameters=true")
You can also store the header values in a java.util.Map and store the map on the headers with the key CamelJdbcParameters.
Samples
In the following example, we fetch the rows from the customer table.
First we register our datasource in the Camel registry as testdb:
Then we configure a route that routes to the JDBC component, so the SQL will be executed. Note how we refer to the testdb datasource that was bound in the previous step:
Or you can create a DataSource in Spring like this:
We create an endpoint, add the SQL query to the body of the IN message, and then send the exchange. The result of the query is returned in the OUT body:
If you want to work on the rows one by one instead of the entire ResultSet at once you need to use the Splitter EIP such as:
Sample - Polling the database every minute
If we want to poll a database using the JDBC component, we need to combine it with a polling scheduler such as the Timer or Quartz etc. In the following example, we retrieve data from the database every 60 seconds:
from("timer://foo?period=60000").setBody(constant("select * from customer")).to("jdbc:testdb").to("activemq:queue:customers");
See Also