Starting a ChannelAdapter when auto-start = false

[cmdunn01886]

I have set the auto-startup attribute on my ChannelAdapter to false and would like to programmatically start it. How do I accomplish this?

Thanks.

[Mark Fisher]

You can do a bean lookup (or inject it by reference).

One question: does the channel-adapter have both "id" and "channel" attributes?

[cmdunn01886]

Just the id. I'm sorry - I'm missing something in your response. If I lookup the bean via the context, I get the bean - in this case the DirectChannel.

<pre>
ClassPathXmlApplicationContext ctx = new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext(serviceResources);
DirectChannel endpoint = (DirectChannel)ctx.getBean("xmlFile");
</pre>

There is no way to start it, correct?

<pre>
<file:inbound-channel-adapter id="xmlFile"
directory="file:/virat/inputxml"
auto-create-directory="false"
auto-startup="false"
filename-pattern=".+.xml">
<integration:poller>
<integration:interval-trigger time-unit="SECONDS" interval="1"/>
</integration:poller>
</file:inbound-channel-adapter>
</pre>

[Mark Fisher]

Yes, that's why I asked about the "id" and "channel". If you don't provide a value for "channel", then the value in "id" is used as the name of an auto-created channel. So, you have two options:

1) create a channel and reference it from the "channel" attribute so that the "id" value is used for the adapter bean instead of the auto-created channel bean

2) lookup the bean named "x.adapter" where "x" is the value of your "id" attribute (and hence the channel name)

This was originally designed to be a *convenience* but after explaining it a few times, I realize it can be a bit confusing.

Hope that helps.
Mark

[cmdunn01886]

Mark,
It makes sense now. Thanks for the explanation.
Mike