Removing unwanted messages (Simple)

Not all messages are interesting and worth processing. Some applications generate too much noise, and only messages matching criteria should continue down a pipeline. In these kind of situations Message Filter pattern is used to eliminate undesirable messages, as shown in the following figure:

Removing unwanted messages (Simple)

Getting ready

The complete source code for this tutorial is located under the following project: camel-message-routing-examples/removing-unwanted-messages.

How to do it...

Start with a filter definition, followed by a predicate expression and the processors to which this filter applies:

from("direct:start") .filter(header("userStatus").isEqualTo("valid")) ...

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