Payload modification within a router

[binz84]

I'm having a custom router in this form:

@Router
public String route(Foo payload) {...}

If I modify the payload object within this method (say, payload.setDate(new Date())), would that reflect in the actual Message that will be routed?

[Gary Russell]

Yes, but it would be cleaner to use an upstream @Transformer to modify the payload, rather than mixing concerns like this.

Routers should just route.

The @Transformer could be another method in the same class