Apache Camel: set an object dependency before operation with Spring - spring

Question

In this example, I am trying to set the object dependency before calling businessLogic. I am receiving a nullpointer because that 'consumer' object is not set.
Here is the basis of the example and mostly trying to use the Spring DSL.
http://camel.apache.org/polling-consumer
Section: Timer based polling consumer
Here is my camel/spring config:
<bean id="simpleOutboxMessageConsumer" class="org.berlin.camel.esb.logs.mq.SimplePrintMessageConsumer"/>
<!-- Continue with spring dsl for ESB -->
<camelContext id="myCamel" xmlns="http://camel.apache.org/schema/spring">
<!-- Define a MQ consumer template -->
<consumerTemplate id="consumer" />
....
</camelContext>
<route id="fromOutboxAndConsume">
<from uri="timer://foo?period=30000" />
<to uri="bean:simpleOutboxMessageConsumer?method=businessLogic" />
</route>
Java code
#Component
public class SimplePrintMessageConsumer {
private static final Logger logger = Logger.getLogger(SimplePrintMessageConsumer.class);
private int count;
#Autowired
private ConsumerTemplate consumer;
public void setConsumer(final ConsumerTemplate consumer) {
this.consumer = consumer;
}
public void businessLogic() {
logger.info("Launching business logic to consume outbox, blocking until we get a message >>>");
while (true) {
// Consume the message
final String msg = consumer.receiveBody("activemq:queue.outbox", 3000, String.class);
logger.info("Printing message found from queue: " + msg);
if (msg == null) {
// no more messages in queue
break;
}
}
}
}
There is a nullpointer at the usage of the consume object. I am thinking that spring is not just autowiring that bean properly. Even if I didn't use spring, how would I pass the consumer template object to this bean?

Answer 1

This should work
<bean id="simpleOutboxMessageConsumer" class="....SimplePrintMessageConsumer">
<property name="consumer" ref="consumer"/>
</bean>
Remove the #AutoWire , I am checking on why the #Autowire is not working by the way