How can i know when CamelContext was started?

Question

I want to know when CamelContext was started. As i see, DefaultCamelContext has private Date startDate field. There is no getter or other methods to get information from this field. All can i get is getUptimeMillis() that returns uptime, but this is not what I am looking for.

I know that I can get field value using reflection:

Class clazz = context.getClass();
Field field = clazz.getDeclaredField("startDate");
field.setAccessible(true);
Date date = (Date) field.get(context);

But I dont think this is good way.

Is there any another way to get this information (may be use another CamelContext, some camel components or services)?

Thank you.

Answer 1

Yeah we can make that as a public API. I created a ticket https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CAMEL-14266

Otherwise you should do as suggested to calculate the start date via the uptime and minus the current time.