Ingesting data

Let's start with the first step, ingestion of data. We have configured two data sources: RSS feeds and an FTP server, let's take a look at these.

Ingesting data from the RSS feed

The following code snippet is the configuration for a feed adapter; this fetches feed from the configured url and puts it on the channel:

<int-feed:inbound-channel-adapter 
  id="soJavaFeedAdapterForAggregator" 
  channel="fetchedFeedChannel" 
  auto-startup="true" 
  url="${feeds.url}"> 
  <int:poller 
    fixed-rate="500" max-messages-per-poll="1" />
</int-feed:inbound-channel-adapter>

Tip

I will show the code and explain what it does, but will not cover each and every tag in detail as they have already been covered in the respective chapters.

Ingesting data from an FTP server ...

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