Question

I’m developing web app using Spring Integration to route my messages, but I have some problems with passing my header value. My message goes through router and service activator.

The header value is available in a routing method of my router so it seems to be ok. Let’s assume that it is not a problem (I checked this by disabling my service activator).

When it comes to my service activator method the following error is thrown:
“Failed to find any valid Message-handling methods named process on target class MyService.”

my-spring-integration.xml

<channel id="route" />
<service-activator method="process" input-channel="route" ref="myService" output-channel="myOutputChannel" />

MyRouter.java

@Component
public class MyRouter {

   public String router(String message, @Header("isValid") boolean isValid) {
      // isValid is "true"
      return "route";
   } 

}

MyService.java

@MessageEndpoint
@Transactional
public class MyService {

   public void process(String message, @Header("isValid") boolean isValid) {
      ...
   }

}

Why is that? Are headers values erased after routing? Or my configuration is wrong? I tried to add @ServiceActivator annotation to my process method, but it didn’t help.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

I’m working with legacy code and it was probably caused by old spring integration version. My application support ‘@Headers’, but it doesn’t support ‘@Header’ annotation. @Header annotation was accepted in my router which is interface and not in my service activator which does not implement any interface. I suspect it was caused by old version of spring integration or cglib.