Apache camel bindy

Question

I would like to know about writing Objects to a CSV using camel bindy,But my class has a user defined datatypes.I see bindy source code, gives exception for the data types other than which are predefined,Any option in bindy for doing like this.If @Link could help here ? Thank you :)

here is my class

@CsvRecord
Public class Myclass{
@DataField(pos = 1)
 private RefClass refOne;
@DataField(pos = 2)
 private String createdOn; 
}

public class RefClass{
private RefClassTwo refTwo;
private String createdBy;
}

Answer 1

@Link can help to encapsulate two related fiends on a separate class. So, for example for the CSV

Order,Name,Surname

1,Frank,Smith

You could do something like this

public class Order {

@DataField(pos = 1)
private int orderNr;
@Link
private Client client;
}

@Link
public class Client {
@DataField(pos = 2)
private String firstname;
@DataField(pos = 3)
private String lastname;
}

For a full example of @Link check this unit test from the camel bindy component tests using this complex model

If you want to get information from one field of the csv to more than one field types in your classes use bindy to parse the information in a String

@CsvRecord
Public class Myclass{
@DataField(pos = 1)
 private String refOne;
@DataField(pos = 2)
 private String createdOn; 
}

and afterwards use a processor in your route, parse the content of position 1 and generate the datatypes you want.

Answer 2

Objects linked with @Link help to group attributes. But also these linked classes must be Bindy annotated.