| = Attachments Component |
| :page-source: components/camel-attachments/src/main/docs/attachments.adoc |
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| The attachments component provides the `javax.attachments` API support for Apache Camel. |
| A few Camel component uses attachments such as mail and web-service components. |
| The attachments component is include automatic when using these components. |
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| The attachments support is on Camel `Message` level, for example to get |
| the `javax.activation.DataHandler` instance of the attachment, you can do as shown below: |
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| [source,java] |
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| AttachmentMessage attMsg = exchange.getIn(AttachmentMessage.class); |
| Attachment attachment = attMsg.getAttachmentObject("myAttachment"); |
| DataHandler dh = attachment.getDataHandler(); |
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| And if you want to add an attachment, to a Camel `Message` you can do as shown: |
| [source,java] |
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| AttachmentMessage attMsg = exchange.getIn(AttachmentMessage.class); |
| attMsg.addAttachment("message1.xml", new DataHandler(new FileDataSource(new File("myMessage1.xml")))); |
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