Programatically bridge a QueueChannel to a MessageChannel in Spring - spring

Question

I'm attempting to wire a queue to the front of a MessageChannel, and I need to do so programatically so it can be done at run time in response to an osgi:listener being triggered. So far I've got:
public void addService(MessageChannel mc, Map<String,Object> properties)
{
//Create the queue and the QueueChannel
BlockingQueue<Message<?>> q = new LinkedBlockingQueue<Message<?>>();
QueueChannel qc = new QueueChannel(q);
//Create the Bridge and set the output to the input parameter channel
BridgeHandler b = new BridgeHandler();
b.setOutputChannel(mc);
//Presumably, I need something here to poll the QueueChannel
//and drop it onto the bridge. This is where I get lost
}
Looking through the various relevant classes, I came up with:
PollerMetadata pm = new PollerMetadata();
pm.setTrigger(new IntervalTrigger(10));
PollingConsumer pc = new PollingConsumer(qc, b);
but I'm not able to put it all together. What am I missing?

Answer 1

So, the solution that ended up working for me was:
public void addEngineService(MessageChannel mc, Map<String,Object> properties)
{
//Create the queue and the QueueChannel
BlockingQueue<Message<?>> q = new LinkedBlockingQueue<Message<?>>();
QueueChannel qc = new QueueChannel(q);
//Create the Bridge and set the output to the input parameter channel
BridgeHandler b = new BridgeHandler();
b.setOutputChannel(mc);
//Setup a Polling Consumer to poll the queue channel and
//retrieve 1 thing at a time
PollingConsumer pc = new PollingConsumer(qc, b);
pc.setMaxMessagesPerPoll(1);
//Now use an interval trigger to poll every 10 ms and attach it
IntervalTrigger trig = new IntervalTrigger(10, TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS);
trig.setInitialDelay(0);
trig.setFixedRate(true);
pc.setTrigger(trig);
//Now set a task scheduler and start it
pc.setTaskScheduler(taskSched);
pc.setAutoStartup(true);
pc.start();
}
I'm not terribly clear if all the above is explicitly needed, but neither the trigger or the task scheduler alone worked, I did appear to need both. I should also note the taskSched used was the default taskScheduler dependency injected from spring via
<property name="taskSched" ref="taskScheduler"/>