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[[string-template-component]]
= String Template Component
:page-source: components/camel-stringtemplate/src/main/docs/string-template-component.adoc

*Available as of Camel version 1.2*

The String Template component allows you to process a message using a
http://www.stringtemplate.org/[String Template]. This can be ideal when
using Templating to generate responses for
requests.

Maven users will need to add the following dependency to their `pom.xml`
for this component:

[source,xml]
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<dependency>
    <groupId>org.apache.camel</groupId>
    <artifactId>camel-stringtemplate</artifactId>
    <version>x.x.x</version>
    <!-- use the same version as your Camel core version -->
</dependency>
------------------------------------------------------------

== URI format

[source,java]
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string-template:templateName[?options]
--------------------------------------

Where *templateName* is the classpath-local URI of the template to
invoke; or the complete URL of the remote template.

You can append query options to the URI in the following format,
`?option=value&option=value&...`

== Options


// component options: START
The String Template component supports 1 options, which are listed below.



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|===
| Name | Description | Default | Type
| *basicPropertyBinding* (advanced) | Whether the component should use basic property binding (Camel 2.x) or the newer property binding with additional capabilities | false | boolean
|===
// component options: END



// endpoint options: START
The String Template endpoint is configured using URI syntax:

----
string-template:resourceUri
----

with the following path and query parameters:

=== Path Parameters (1 parameters):


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|===
| Name | Description | Default | Type
| *resourceUri* | *Required* Path to the resource. You can prefix with: classpath, file, http, ref, or bean. classpath, file and http loads the resource using these protocols (classpath is default). ref will lookup the resource in the registry. bean will call a method on a bean to be used as the resource. For bean you can specify the method name after dot, eg bean:myBean.myMethod. |  | String
|===


=== Query Parameters (6 parameters):


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|===
| Name | Description | Default | Type
| *contentCache* (producer) | Sets whether to use resource content cache or not | false | boolean
| *delimiterStart* (producer) | The variable start delimiter | < | char
| *delimiterStop* (producer) | The variable end delimiter | > | char
| *lazyStartProducer* (producer) | Whether the producer should be started lazy (on the first message). By starting lazy you can use this to allow CamelContext and routes to startup in situations where a producer may otherwise fail during starting and cause the route to fail being started. By deferring this startup to be lazy then the startup failure can be handled during routing messages via Camel's routing error handlers. Beware that when the first message is processed then creating and starting the producer may take a little time and prolong the total processing time of the processing. | false | boolean
| *basicPropertyBinding* (advanced) | Whether the endpoint should use basic property binding (Camel 2.x) or the newer property binding with additional capabilities | false | boolean
| *synchronous* (advanced) | Sets whether synchronous processing should be strictly used, or Camel is allowed to use asynchronous processing (if supported). | false | boolean
|===
// endpoint options: END
// spring-boot-auto-configure options: START
== Spring Boot Auto-Configuration

When using Spring Boot make sure to use the following Maven dependency to have support for auto configuration:

[source,xml]
----
<dependency>
  <groupId>org.apache.camel</groupId>
  <artifactId>camel-stringtemplate-starter</artifactId>
  <version>x.x.x</version>
  <!-- use the same version as your Camel core version -->
</dependency>
----


The component supports 2 options, which are listed below.



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|===
| Name | Description | Default | Type
| *camel.component.string-template.basic-property-binding* | Whether the component should use basic property binding (Camel 2.x) or the newer property binding with additional capabilities | false | Boolean
| *camel.component.string-template.enabled* | Enable string-template component | true | Boolean
|===
// spring-boot-auto-configure options: END


== Headers

Camel will store a reference to the resource in the message header with
key, `org.apache.camel.stringtemplate.resource`. The Resource is an
`org.springframework.core.io.Resource` object.

== Hot reloading

The string template resource is by default hot-reloadable for both file
and classpath resources (expanded jar). If you set `contentCache=true`,
Camel loads the resource only once and hot-reloading is not possible.
This scenario can be used in production when the resource never changes.

== StringTemplate Attributes

You can define the custom context map by setting the
message header "*CamelStringTemplateVariableMap*" just like the below
code.

[source,java]
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Map<String, Object> variableMap = new HashMap<String, Object>();
Map<String, Object> headersMap = new HashMap<String, Object>();
headersMap.put("name", "Willem");
variableMap.put("headers", headersMap);
variableMap.put("body", "Monday");
variableMap.put("exchange", exchange);
exchange.getIn().setHeader("CamelStringTemplateVariableMap", variableMap);
--------------------------------------------------------------------------

== Samples

For example you could use a string template as follows in order to
formulate a response to a message:

[source,java]
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from("activemq:My.Queue").
  to("string-template:com/acme/MyResponse.tm");
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== The Email Sample

In this sample we want to use a string template to send an order
confirmation email. The email template is laid out in `StringTemplate`
as:

[source,java]
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Dear <headers.lastName>, <headers.firstName>

Thanks for the order of <headers.item>.

Regards Camel Riders Bookstore
<body>
--------------------------------------------

And the java code is as follows: