Apache Camel: how store variable for later use - spring

Question

while 'playing around' with Camel using Spring DSL, I came across the following problem. Suppose the expected message flow looks like this:
client sends HTTP POST message with XML body to CAMEL
CAMEL proxies HTTP POST message towards server, with the URI slightly adapted using
info from the received XML body (eg: use XPATH to filter out a certain parameter)
after CAMEL has received a reply, CAMEL sends HTTP PUT message towards server, using parameters out of the XML body received in 1
So something like:
<route>
<from uri="...">
<to uri="...">
<to uri="...">
</route>
Question: how do I store the parameters in Spring DSL in step 1, so that I can use them later in step 3 ?
So, I would like to extract XML parameters out of the XML body of the message received in step 1 and put them into variables, which I then later on can use to compose the message to be sent in step 3.
For extracting the parameters, I was thinking of using XPATH. That looks ok, but I just don't see how to put the output of the XPATH into a variable and then use that variable later on ... (syntax ??)
Note: as you can see, my development knowledge is rather limited ... sorry for that. But it would still be great if someone could help with this :).

Answer 1

you can set store data in the Exchange properties or message headers like this...
.setHeader("ID", XPathBuilder.xpath("/order/#id", String.class))
.setProperty("ID", XPathBuilder.xpath("/order/#id", String.class))
and then retrieve them in a bean/processor from the Exchange like this...
String propId = (String) exchange.getProperty("ID");
String headerId = (String) exchange.getIn().getHeader("ID"); }

Answer 2

I leave you some examples:
<setHeader headerName="token">
<constant>someValue</constant>
</setHeader>
<setHeader headerName="userName">
<simple>${properties:userName}</simple> //from config
</setHeader>
<setProperty propertyName="bodyBkp">
<simple>${in.body}</simple>
</setProperty>
<setProperty propertyName="orderNumber">
<xpath resultType="String">//item[1]/orderNumber/text()</xpath>
</setProperty>
Getter
${exchangeProperty[orderNumber]}
${in.headers.token}
Documentation
Check the simple expression language:
http://camel.apache.org/simple.html
Sometimes looking at the test cases of Camel can be helpful as well, in particular for Spring DSL:
setProperty with Spring DSL
setHeader using XPATH with Spring DSL
simple expression language test