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<smooks [config-key="string"]>
   <input [type="|text|xml"]/>
   <output [type="|text|xml|java"] [property="string"] [action="string"]/>
</smooks>

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configuration

  • Config-Key
  • Input- User can define the input as text or XML.
    • Expression - Specify an XPath as an expression to pick the exact message block. Else, the entire 'message body' will be selected by default. 
  • Output - Similar to input, the user can define how the output should be. The output type can be text, XML, or Java, and the output can be a property or expression. When the user defines the output as a property, the property will be saved in the messagecontext for future uses. When the user defines the output as an expression, there are additional actions that can be performed:
    • Add - The selected node will be added as a child to the message.
    • Replace - Selected node will be replaced in the message.
    • Sibling - Selected node will be added as a sibling.

Performance tuning

Smooks can be used to split a file and send split results to a JMS endpoint. In this case, having a value other than -1 for jms:highWaterMark in the Smooks configuration file can result in a low throughput for message publishing, since Smooks will spend resources on message counting while the messages are being published. Therefore, it is recommended to use -1 as the highWaterMark value for high throughput values. Following is a sample Smooks configuration file with this setting. For more information on creating the Smooks configuration file, see the documentation on the official Smooks website.

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titleSample Smooks configuration
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <smooks-resource-list xmlns="http://www.milyn.org/xsd/smooks-1.1.xsd" xmlns:core="http://www.milyn.org/xsd/smooks/smooks-core-1.3.xsd" xmlns:ftl="http://www.milyn.org/xsd/smooks/freemarker-1.1.xsd" xmlns:jms="http://www.milyn.org/xsd/smooks/jms-routing-1.2.xsd">
   <!--
   Filter the message using the SAX Filter (i.e. not DOM, so no
   intermediate DOM, so we can process huge messages...
   -->
   <core:filterSettings type="SAX" />
   <!-- Capture the message data 2 seperate DOM model, for "order" and "order-item" fragments... -->
   <resource-config selector="order,order-item">
     <resource>org.milyn.delivery.DomModelCreator</resource>
   </resource-config>
   <!-- At each "order-iteam", apply a template to the "order" and "order-item" DOM model... -->
   <ftl:freemarker applyOnElement="order-item">
     <!--
     Note in the template that we need to use the special FreeMarker variable ".vars"
     because of the hyphenated variable names ("order-item"). See http://freemarker.org/docs/ref_specvar.html.
     -->
     <ftl:template>/repository/resources/orderitem-split.ftl.txt</ftl:template>
     <ftl:use>
       <!-- Bind the templating result into the bean context, from where
       it can be accessed by the JMSRouter (configured above). -->
       <ftl:bindTo id="orderItem_xml" />
     </ftl:use>
   </ftl:freemarker>
   <!-- At each "order-item", route the "orderItem_xml" to the ActiveMQ JMS Queue... -->
   <jms:router routeOnElement="order-item" beanId="orderItem_xml" destination="smooks.exampleQueue">
     <jms:message>
       <!-- Need to use special FreeMarker variable ".vars" -->
       <jms:correlationIdPattern>${order.@id}-${.vars["order-item"].@id}</jms:correlationIdPattern>
     </jms:message>
     <jms:jndi properties="/repository/conf/jndi.properties" />
     <jms:highWaterMark mark="-1" />
   </jms:router>
 </smooks-resource-list>

Example

See Sample 654: Smooks Mediator.