Spring Integration manually start/stop channel adapter via control bus

Question

Is there anyway to manually start/init a channel adapter?

I have two pairs of inbound/outbound adapters in my context.xml and would like to decide at runtime which o

Answer 1

To achieve this, you need to first set the channel-adapter auto-startup property to false auto-startup="false" and then using control bus start/stop the adapter

See here control bus example - https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-integration-samples/tree/master/basic/control-bus

Answer 2

Set autoStartup="false" and either directly start()/stop() them, or use a <control-bus/> (send @myAdapter.start()).

Getting a direct reference (autowire etc), depends on the endpoint type. If it's a polled endpoint, inject a SourcePollingChannelAdapter; message-driven adapters vary, but generally are a MessageProducerSupport or MessagingGatewaySupport.

EDIT:

Read about the control-bus here.

Give the inbound adapter an id attribute.

Add <control-bus input-channel="control"/>

Add <int:gateway service-interface="foo.Controller" default-request-channel="control"/>

Create a gateway interface

public interface Controller {

    void control(String command);

}

@Autowire the gateway (or use context.getBean(Controller.class)).

Then, when you are ready to start the adapter, call, e.g. gateway.control("@mqttOut.start()").

You don't need auto-startup="false" on the outbound adapters.

However, for a simple use case like this, you might want to investigate using Spring profiles instead (put the adapters in a profile and enable the profile at runtime.

Answer 3

I was looking for same example using spring integration Java DSL, but haven't found anything, so I've created my own. It shows to be pretty simple to configure.

@Bean
public IntegrationFlow controlBus() {
    return IntegrationFlows.from(controlChannel())
            .controlBus()
            .get();
}

@Bean
public MessageChannel controlChannel() {
    return MessageChannels.direct().get();
}

To Stop it:

controlChannel.send(new GenericMessage<>("@myInboundAdapter.stop()"));

https://github.com/CauchyPeano/sftp-poller-control-bus