= Control Bus Component
:doctitle: Control Bus
:shortname: controlbus
:artifactid: camel-controlbus
:description: Manage and monitor Camel routes.
:since: 2.11
:supportlevel: Stable
:tabs-sync-option:
:component-header: Only producer is supported
:core:
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:camel-spring-boot-name: controlbus

*Since Camel {since}*

*{component-header}*

The http://www.eaipatterns.com/ControlBus.html[Control Bus] from the
EIP patterns allows for the
integration system to be monitored and managed from within the
framework.

image::control_bus.png[image]

Use a Control Bus to manage an enterprise integration system. The
Control Bus uses the same messaging mechanism used by the application
data, but uses separate channels to transmit data that is relevant to
the management of components involved in the message flow.

In Camel, you can manage and monitor the application:

* using JMX.
* by using a Java API from the `CamelContext`.
* from the `org.apache.camel.api.management` package.
* using the event notifier.
* using the ControlBus component.

The ControlBus component provides easy management of Camel applications based on the xref:controlbus-component.adoc[Control Bus] EIP pattern.
For example, by sending a message to an endpoint, you can control the lifecycle of routes, or gather performance statistics.

----
controlbus:command[?options]
----

Where `command` can be any string to identify which type of command to use.

== Commands

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|Command |Description

|`route` |To control routes using the `routeId` and `action` parameter.

|`language` |Allows you to specify a xref:language-component.adoc[Language] to use for
evaluating the message body. If there is any result from the evaluation,
then the result is put in the message body.
|===


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== Examples

=== Using route command

The route command allows you to do common tasks on a given route very easily.
For example, to start a route, you can send an empty message to this endpoint:

[source,java]
----
template.sendBody("controlbus:route?routeId=foo&action=start", null);
----

To get the status of the route, you can do:

[source,java]
----
String status = template.requestBody("controlbus:route?routeId=foo&action=status", null, String.class);
----

[[ControlBus-Gettingperformancestatistics]]
=== Getting performance statistics

This requires JMX to be enabled (it is enabled by default) then you can get the
performance statics per route, or for the CamelContext.
For example, to get the statics for a route named foo, we can use:

[source,java]
----
String xml = template.requestBody("controlbus:route?routeId=foo&action=stats", null, String.class);
----

The returned statics is in XML format.
It is the same data you can get from JMX with the `dumpRouteStatsAsXml` operation on the `ManagedRouteMBean`.

To get statics for the entire `CamelContext` you just omit the routeId parameter as shown below:

[source,java]
----
String xml = template.requestBody("controlbus:route?action=stats", null, String.class);
----

=== Using Simple language

You can use the xref:languages:simple-language.adoc[Simple] language with the control bus.
For example, to stop a specific route, you can send a message to the `"controlbus:language:simple"` endpoint containing the following message:

[source,java]
----
template.sendBody("controlbus:language:simple", "${camelContext.getRouteController().stopRoute('myRoute')}");
----

As this is a void operation, no result is returned.
However, if you want the route status, you can use:

[source,java]
----
String status = template.requestBody("controlbus:language:simple", "${camelContext.getRouteController().getRouteStatus('myRoute')}", String.class);
----

It's easier to use the `route` command to control lifecycle of
routes. The `language` command allows you to execute a language script
that has stronger powers such as xref:languages:groovy-language.adoc[Groovy] or to some
extend the xref:languages:simple-language.adoc[Simple] language.

For example, to shut down Apache Camel itself, you can do:

[source,java]
----
template.sendBody("controlbus:language:simple?async=true", "${camelContext.stop()}");
----

We use `async=true` to stop Camel asynchronously as otherwise we
would be trying to stop Camel while it was in-flight processing the
message we sent to the control bus component.

[TIP]
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You can also use other languages such as xref:languages:groovy-language.adoc[Groovy], etc.
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