[[BatchConsumer-BatchConsumer]]
Batch Consumer
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

*Available as of Camel 2.0*

Batch Consumer is basically a link:polling-consumer.html[Polling
Consumer] that is capable of polling multiple
link:exchange.html[Exchange]s in a pool. What we have done in Camel 2.0
is to standardize this into a `org.apache.camel.BatchConsumer` interface
that a consumer can implement to indicate it support batching as well.

The following components supports link:batch-consumer.html[Batch
Consumer] by its consumer:

* link:atom.html[Atom]
* link:file2.html[File]
* link:ftp2.html[FTP]
* link:hbase.html[hbase]
* link:ibatis.html[iBatis]
* link:jpa.html[JPA]
* link:jclouds.html[JCLOUDS]
* link:mail.html[Mail]
* link:mybatis.html[MyBatis]
* link:snmp.html[SNMP]
* link:sql-component.html[SQL]
* link:aws-sqs.html[SQS]
* link:aws-s3.html[S3]

[[BatchConsumer-ConsumerOptions]]
Consumer Options
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

The Batch Consumer supports the following options:

[width="100%",cols="20%,80%",options="header",]
|=======================================================================
|Option |Description

|maxMessagesPerPoll |An integer to define a maximum messages to gather per poll. By default
no maximum is set. Can be used to set a limit of e.g. 1000 to avoid when
starting up the server that there are thousands of files. Set a value of
0 or negative to disabled it.
|=======================================================================

[[BatchConsumer-ExchangeProperties]]
Exchange Properties
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

The following properties is set on the link:exchange.html[Exchange] for
each link:exchange.html[Exchange] polled in the same batch.

[width="100%",cols="20%,80%",options="header",]
|=======================================================================
|Property |Description

|CamelBatchSize |The total number of link:exchange.html[Exchange]s that was polled in
this batch.

|CamelBatchIndex |The current index of the batch. Starts from 0.

|CamelBatchComplete |A boolean indicating the last link:exchange.html[Exchange] in the batch.
Is only `true` for the last entry.
|=======================================================================

[[BatchConsumer-SeeAlso]]
See Also
^^^^^^^^

* link:polling-consumer.html[Polling Consumer]