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Spring Integration Essentials
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Spring Integration Essentials

by CHANDAN K PANDEY
February 2015
Intermediate to advanced
198 pages
4h 17m
English
Packt Publishing
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Filters

Message filters are Spring Integration components, which act as an interceptor and decide whether to pass on the message to the next channel/component or drop it. Unlike routers, which decide what should be the next channel for a message, filters only take a boolean decision—whether to pass or not. There are two ways to define a message filter in Spring Integration:

  • Write a simple Java class and designate its method that will take decisions whether to pass the message or not
  • Configure it as a message endpoint that delegates to an implementation of the MessageSelector interface

This can be configured either in XML or annotations can be used.

Using a Java class to act as a filter

Let's take an example of using a simple Java class as a filter—this ...

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