Using static methods to create beans in yaml dsl

[2tsheep]

Hello everyone,
I hope that this is the right place for this question.

I want to create a connection bean to an influxdb in yaml dsl. However, I was not able to find anything in the documentation or in the examples which specifies how a static or even a specific method can be addressed. Here is an example Code Snippet:
`- beans:

• name: "influxdb"
  type: "org.influxdb.InfluxDBFactory"
  properties:
  url: "http://localhost:8086"`
  This does not work since this class does not have a constructor which returns an instance of InfluxdDB and I cannot figure out how to specify that I want to address the "connect" method provided in that class. I know that this class references uses the constructors of org.influxdb.impl.InfluxDBImpl to create the desired instances but I don't know either how I could create and pass an Object of type OkHttpClient to that constructor,

Is there a way to address static methods when creating beans ?
What would be the recommended way to achieve the desired behaviour?

Thank you in advance for your help!

[oscerd]

You can try to create a custom bean like in this example and pass to your route with #bean syntax: apache/camel-kamelets-examples#21 (comment)

[oscerd]

What runtime are you using?

[2tsheep]

I am using camel-k 1.12.1 and Im running the integrations on a local kubernetes cluster using Docker Desktop 4.22.1 with knative.

I am not sure if I completely understand what the linked example does. It registers a custom class to the bean registry which then allows us to address the defined methods in the class, is that right? Would this also create a connection bean which I need to send data to an influxdb using the influxdb endpoint?

If it is possible I would like to avoid creating custom beans in java and solely rely on yaml dsl.

I'll add this here for maybe a little more clarification:
`
#camel-k: language=yaml dependency=camel-quarkus:influxdb

• beans:

  • name: "influxdb"
    type: "#ognl:@org.influxdb.InfluxDBFactory@connect"
    properties:
    url: "http://localhost:8086"

• from:
  uri: "{{source}}"
  ...
  to: "influxdb:influxdb"
  `

[oscerd]

I think this is not really easy to accomplish, not only in YAML DSL, but also through camel bean support. @davsclaus any idea?

[davsclaus]

See details at
https://camel.apache.org/components/4.0.x/others/main.html#_creating_custom_beans_with_factory_method

[2tsheep]

I apologise for the late reply and thank you very much for the help.

A colleague of mine managed to find a way to solve this solely through YAML DSL. It is possible to address a static method by using the following syntax:

• beans:
  • name: "influxdbConnectionBean"
    type: org.influxdb.InfluxDBFactory#connect("url", "username","password")