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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE book PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN" "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd">
<chapter id="stream">
<title>Stream Support</title>
<section id="stream-intro">
<title>Introduction</title>
<para>
In many cases application data is obtained from a stream. It is <emphasis>not</emphasis> recommended to send a reference to a Stream as a message payload to a consumer. Instead messages are created from data that is read from an input stream and message payloads are written to an output stream one by one.
</para>
</section>
<section id="stream-reading">
<title>Reading from streams</title>
<para>
Spring Integration provides two adapters for streams. Both <classname>ByteStreamReadingMessageSource</classname> and
<classname>CharacterStreamReadingMessageSource</classname> implement <interfacename>MessageSource</interfacename>.
By configuring one of these within a channel-adapter element, the polling period can be configured,
and the Message Bus can automatically detect and schedule them. The byte stream version requires an
<classname>InputStream</classname>, and the character stream version requires a <classname>Reader</classname> as
the single constructor argument. The <classname>ByteStreamReadingMessageSource</classname> also accepts the 'bytesPerMessage'
property to determine how many bytes it will attempt to read into each <interfacename>Message</interfacename>. The
default value is 1024
<programlisting language="xml"><![CDATA[<bean class="org.springframework.integration.stream.ByteStreamReadingMessageSource">
<constructor-arg ref="someInputStream"/>
<property name="bytesPerMessage" value="2048"/>
</bean>
<bean class="org.springframework.integration.stream.CharacterStreamReadingMessageSource">
<constructor-arg ref="someReader"/>
</bean>]]>
</programlisting>
</para>
</section>
<section id="stream-writing">
<title>Writing to streams</title>
<para>
For target streams, there are also two implementations: <classname>ByteStreamWritingMessageHandler</classname> and
<classname>CharacterStreamWritingMessageHandler</classname>. Each requires a single constructor argument -
<classname>OutputStream</classname> for byte streams or <classname>Writer</classname> for character streams,
and each provides a second constructor that adds the optional 'bufferSize'. Since both of these
ultimately implement the <interfacename>MessageHandler</interfacename> interface, they can be referenced from a
<emphasis>channel-adapter</emphasis> configuration as described in more detail in
<xref linkend="channel-adapter"/>.
<programlisting language="xml"><![CDATA[<bean class="org.springframework.integration.stream.ByteStreamWritingMessageHandler">
<constructor-arg ref="someOutputStream"/>
<constructor-arg value="1024"/>
</bean>
<bean class="org.springframework.integration.stream.CharacterStreamWritingMessageHandler">
<constructor-arg ref="someWriter"/>
</bean>]]>
</programlisting>
</para>
</section>
<section id="stream-namespace">
<title>Stream namespace support</title>
<para>
To reduce the configuration needed for stream related channel adapters there is a namespace defined. The following schema locations are needed to use it.
<programlisting language="xml"><![CDATA[<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans:beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/integration/stream"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns:beans="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-2.5.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/integration/stream
http://www.springframework.org/schema/integration/stream/spring-integration-stream-1.0.xsd">]]></programlisting>
</para>
<para>
To configure the inbound channel adapter the following code snippet shows the different configuration options that are supported.
<programlisting language="xml"><![CDATA[<stdin-channel-adapter id="adapterWithDefaultCharset"/>
<stdin-channel-adapter id="adapterWithProvidedCharset" charset="UTF-8"/>]]></programlisting>
</para>
<para>
To configure the outbound channel adapter you can use the namespace support as well. The following code snippet shows the different configuration for an outbound channel adapters.
<programlisting language="xml"><![CDATA[<stdout-channel-adapter id="stdoutAdapterWithDefaultCharset" channel="testChannel"/>
<stdout-channel-adapter id="stdoutAdapterWithProvidedCharset" charset="UTF-8" channel="testChannel"/>
<stderr-channel-adapter id="stderrAdapter" channel="testChannel"/>
<stdout-channel-adapter id="newlineAdapter" append-newline="true" channel="testChannel"/>
]]></programlisting>
</para>
</section>
</chapter>