Hello Camel users,

I have a question regarding the camel-rabbitmq component. The following code 
sends the message “test” to exchange “A” with routing key “B”:


from("timer:test?period=5000").process(new Processor() {
            @Override
            public void process(Exchange exchange) throws Exception {
                exchange.getOut().setBody("test", String.class);
                exchange.getOut().getHeaders().put("rabbitmq.EXCHANGE_NAME", 
"A”);   **
                exchange.getOut().getHeaders().put("rabbitmq.ROUTING_KEY", 
"B”);   **
            }
        })
 
.to("rabbitmq://localhost/A?username=guest&password=guest&routingKey=B&threadPoolSize=1&autoAck=false");



However when I comment out the lines with **, the message does not get sent. Is 
this an expected behaviour? I found this stack overflow post, essentially 
discussing the same issue: 
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22449086/apache-camel-rabbitmq-endpoint-not-creating
 
<http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22449086/apache-camel-rabbitmq-endpoint-not-creating>
 .

There is a paragraph at http://camel.apache.org/rabbitmq.html 
<http://camel.apache.org/rabbitmq.html> that says

"Headers are set by the consumer once the message is received. The producer 
will also set the headers for downstream processors once the exchange has taken 
place. Any headers set prior to production that the producer sets will be 
overridden.”

The last sentence seems to suggest that the behaviour I described here is 
expected. My question then is would it not make more sense if we did not have 
to specifically set the headers in the out message?


Kind regards,
Ismail

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