This version is still in development and is not considered stable yet. For the latest stable version, please use Spring Integration 6.4.1!

File Support

Spring Integration’s file support extends the Spring Integration core with a dedicated vocabulary to deal with reading, writing, and transforming files.

You need to include this dependency into your project:

Maven
Gradle

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.springframework.integration</groupId>
    <artifactId>spring-integration-file</artifactId>
    <version>6.4.2-SNAPSHOT</version>
</dependency>

compile "org.springframework.integration:spring-integration-file:6.4.2-SNAPSHOT"

It provides a namespace that enables elements defining channel adapters dedicated to files and support for transformers that can read file contents into strings or byte arrays.

This section explains the workings of FileReadingMessageSource and FileWritingMessageHandler and how to configure them as beans. It also discusses the support for dealing with files through file-specific implementations of Transformer. Finally, it explains the file-specific namespace.