Multiple consumers for the same endpoint is not allowed

Question

I would like to read files from a directory with camel file consumer but I need my route to be transacted. So I can not use threads inside the rout. Is it ok to write multiply routes to read from the same endpoint (same directory) with a little change between the uris (for example the sort type) , and like this to avoid the Multiple consumers for the same endpoint is not allowed exception ?

Answer 1

Yeah sure you can do that, mind that you will have competing consumes for the same files now, so mind about read-locks. By default Camel use the marker file.

You can also use different delay so they dont poll at the same interval/time. And you can sort by random to make less chance of processing the same files.