Question

I’m considering the use of camel-twitter (The Twitter Component for Apache Camel: http://camel.apache.org/twitter.html). I want to use Twitters Streaming API.

What is the difference between the types event and direct?

Does somebody have an example code for the usage of the event-driven consumer? (I only found this one so far https://fisheye6.atlassian.com/browse/camel/trunk/components/camel-twitter/src/test/java/org/apache/camel/component/twitter/SearchEventTest.java)

Answer 1

The Direct type tells the consumer/producer that it will connect to Twitter each time the endpoint is activated somehow. Let’s say you want to use a schedule saved in your database to do searches on Twitter:

1. Use a JDBC/JPA endpoint that consumes scheduling data
2. Dynamically create and register Quartz endpoints based on the scheduling data from your DB
3. Configure your Quartz endpoint to send a message to your Direct Twitter endpoint to do the search at that moment

You will be rated, always. No matter if you use Streaming, Direct, or Polling.
In case you are using Streaming, please read this FAQ from Twitter Developer Center