Question

I’m trying to integrate Google Places API using Apache Camel (2.10-SNAPSHOT) and Spring (3.0.7.RELEASE) with Tomcat (7.0.26) as my web conainer server.

When I declare the route in a Spring config xml (see below) I can see the correct output response on my Tomcat logs.

<route id="google-places-route">
        <from uri="direct:start" />
        <to uri="https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/place/search/json?location=40.446788,-79.950559&amp;radius=500&amp;types=food&amp;sensor=false&amp;key=my-google-api-key" />
        <to uri="stream:out"/>
        </split>        
</route>

Please note the camel scheme used here is https and NOT http.

Now, I’m trying to do the same by defining my route in a Java class that extends RouterBuilder


public class GooglePlacesRoute extends RouteBuilder {

@Override
public void configure() throws Exception {

    from("direct:start").process(new MyCustomProcessor()).to("https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/place/search/json?location=40.446788,-79.950559&radius=500&types=food&sensor=false&key=my-google-api-key").to("stream:out");
}

}

---

class MyCustomProcessor implements Processor {

@Override
public void process(Exchange exchange) throws Exception {

    exchange.setPattern(ExchangePattern.InOut);
        Message inMessage = exchange.getIn();


    inMessage.setHeader(Exchange.HTTP_METHOD, "GET");
    exchange.getIn().setBody("", String.class);

}

}


My Camel route is deployed and started correctly. However, when I invoked it I don’t get the expected output. I get the following response from Google’s servers.


{
"html_attributions" : [],
"results" : [],
"status" : "REQUEST_DENIED"
}


I’m assuming that I don’t have to do anything special in my Java DSL to handle HTTPS (instead of HTTP). Is this assumption correct ?

What am I missing here ?

Thanks.

Answer 1

Try using & instead of & in your request.

https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/place/search/json?location=40.446788,-79.950559&radius=500&types=food&sensor=false&key=my-google-api-key