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=== Examples
// examples: START
-Number of Examples: 69 (0 deprecated)
+Number of Examples: 70 (0 deprecated)
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@@ -35,6 +35,8 @@ Number of Examples: 69 (0 deprecated)
| link:ai-agent/README.adoc[Ai Agent] (ai-agent) | AI | An example showing how to work with Camel Spring AI for chat, tools, and vector store
+| link:milvus/readme.adoc[Milvus] (milvus) | AI | An example showing vector similarity search on European cities using Camel OpenAI and Milvus
+
| link:aot-basic/readme.adoc[Aot Basic] (aot-basic) | AOT | Example on how to leverage Spring Boot AOT in Camel Spring Boot
| link:endpointdsl/readme.adoc[Endpointdsl] (endpointdsl) | Beginner | Using type-safe Endpoint DSL
diff --git a/milvus/input/cities.txt b/milvus/input/cities.txt
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+Rome
+Paris
+London
+Madrid
+Berlin
+Prague
+Vienna
+Amsterdam
+Lisbon
+Barcelona
+Dublin
+Brussels
+Warsaw
+Istanbul
+Budapest
+Copenhagen
+Stockholm
+Oslo
+Helsinki
+Athens
+Zurich
+Milan
+Sofia
+
diff --git a/milvus/pom.xml b/milvus/pom.xml
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+ 4.0.0
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+ org.apache.camel.springboot.example
+ examples
+ 4.19.0-SNAPSHOT
+
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+ camel-example-spring-boot-milvus
+ Camel SB Examples :: Milvus
+ An example showing vector similarity search on European cities using Camel OpenAI and Milvus
+
+
+ AI
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+ org.springframework.boot
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+ camel-milvus-starter
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+ camel-openai-starter
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diff --git a/milvus/readme.adoc b/milvus/readme.adoc
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+== Camel Example Spring Boot Milvus Vector Search
+
+This example shows how to use Apache Camel with Milvus as a vector database to perform
+similarity search on European cities based on geographic and demographic features.
+
+OpenAI (via Ollama) is used to generate city data (country, latitude, longitude,
+population in millions) which is stored as a 3-dimensional feature vector in Milvus.
+A similarity search then finds cities with the most similar characteristics.
+
+The pipeline works end-to-end:
+
+1. **Insert**: LLM returns raw city data (`Rome: Italy;40.41;12.51;2.81`) → `VectorUtils` normalizes to 0-1 range → stored in Milvus as 3D vector
+2. **Search**: LLM returns raw Rome coordinates → normalized → Milvus L2 similarity search → finds Rome, Milan, Zurich as the 3 closest cities
+3. **Explain**: The results are sent back to the LLM which provides a natural language explanation with approximate distances
+
+=== Prerequisites
+
+1. A running Milvus instance (using https://camel.apache.org/manual/camel-jbang.html[Camel JBang]):
+
+----
+camel infra run milvus
+----
+
+2. A running Ollama instance with the required model:
+
+----
+ollama serve
+ollama pull granite4:3b
+----
+
+=== How to run
+
+You can run this example using:
+
+----
+mvn spring-boot:run
+----
+
+=== What happens
+
+When the application starts, it executes the following pipeline:
+
+1. **Create Collection** - Creates a `cities` collection in Milvus with four fields: `id` (Int64 primary key), `city` (VarChar), `country` (VarChar), and `features` (3-dimensional FloatVector). The `features` vector encodes each city as `[latitude, longitude, population_millions]`, normalized to 0-1 range. An IVF_FLAT index with L2 distance metric is created on the vector field.
+2. **Insert Cities** - Reads city names from `input/cities.txt`. For each city, it asks the LLM via `openai:chat-completion` to provide the country, latitude, longitude, and population (in millions). The response is parsed using Camel Simple expressions and normalized to a float vector via `VectorUtils`, then inserted into Milvus.
+3. **Similarity Search** - Searches for the 3 cities most similar to Rome based on L2 distance of their feature vectors. The search vector is also generated by the LLM.
+4. **Explain** - The search results are sent back to the LLM which provides a natural language explanation with approximate distances.
+
+=== Expected output
+
+----
+Creating Milvus collection: cities
+Collection created successfully
+Index created successfully
+Processing cities from: cities.txt
+City data for Rome: Italy;41.90;12.50;2.87
+Inserted Rome into Milvus
+City data for Paris: France;48.86;2.35;2.16
+Inserted Paris into Milvus
+...
+All cities indexed. Starting similarity search...
+Searching for three closest cities to: Rome
+Search vector for Rome: 41.90;12.50;2.87
+Closest cities to Rome: [{rank=1, city=Rome, country=Italy}, {rank=2, city=Milan, country=Italy}, {rank=3, city=Zurich, country=Switzerland}].
+Answer: Rome: 0 km, Milan: 200 km, Zurich: 400 km
+----
+
+NOTE: The exact similarity results may vary depending on the LLM responses.
+
+=== Configuration
+
+Edit `src/main/resources/application.properties` to configure:
+
+* `camel.component.milvus.host` - Milvus server host (default: localhost)
+* `camel.component.milvus.port` - Milvus gRPC port (default: 19530)
+* `camel.component.openai.base-url` - OpenAI-compatible API base URL (default: Ollama at http://localhost:11434/v1)
+* `camel.component.openai.model` - Chat completion model (default: granite4:3b)
+
+To use OpenAI instead of Ollama, change the base URL and set your API key:
+
+----
+camel.component.openai.base-url=https://api.openai.com/v1
+camel.component.openai.api-key=${OPENAI_API_KEY}
+camel.component.openai.model=gpt-4o-mini
+----
+
+=== Help and contributions
+
+If you hit any problem using Camel or have some feedback, then please
+https://camel.apache.org/support.html[let us know].
+
+We also love contributors, so
+https://camel.apache.org/contributing.html[get involved] :-)
+
+The Camel riders!
diff --git a/milvus/src/main/java/org/apache/camel/example/springboot/milvus/Application.java b/milvus/src/main/java/org/apache/camel/example/springboot/milvus/Application.java
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@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ * the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+package org.apache.camel.example.springboot.milvus;
+
+import org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication;
+import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.SpringBootApplication;
+
+@SpringBootApplication
+public class Application {
+
+ public static void main(String[] args) {
+ SpringApplication.run(Application.class, args);
+ }
+}
diff --git a/milvus/src/main/java/org/apache/camel/example/springboot/milvus/bean/VectorUtils.java b/milvus/src/main/java/org/apache/camel/example/springboot/milvus/bean/VectorUtils.java
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+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ * the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+package org.apache.camel.example.springboot.milvus.bean;
+
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.List;
+
+import org.apache.camel.Exchange;
+import org.apache.camel.Processor;
+
+public class VectorUtils implements Processor {
+
+ private String normalizationRanges;
+ private float[][] ranges;
+
+ @Override
+ public void process(Exchange exchange) throws Exception {
+ // Converts a semicolon-separated string of numeric values into a normalized List feature vector.
+ String[] parts = exchange.getIn().getBody(String.class).trim().split(";");
+ List vector = new ArrayList<>(parts.length);
+ for (int i = 0; i < parts.length; i++) {
+ float val = Float.parseFloat(parts[i].trim());
+ if (ranges != null && i < ranges.length) {
+ val = (val - ranges[i][0]) / (ranges[i][1] - ranges[i][0]);
+ val = Math.max(0.0f, Math.min(1.0f, val));
+ }
+ vector.add(val);
+ }
+ exchange.getIn().setBody(vector);
+ }
+
+ public String getNormalizationRanges() {
+ return normalizationRanges;
+ }
+
+ /**
+ * Each dimension is normalized to a 0-1 range using configurable min/max ranges, so all features contribute equally to distance calculations in Milvus.
+ */
+ public void setNormalizationRanges(String normalizationRanges) {
+ this.normalizationRanges = normalizationRanges;
+ if (normalizationRanges != null && !normalizationRanges.isBlank()) {
+ String[] pairs = normalizationRanges.split(",");
+ this.ranges = new float[pairs.length][2];
+ for (int i = 0; i < pairs.length; i++) {
+ String[] minMax = pairs[i].trim().split(":");
+ this.ranges[i][0] = Float.parseFloat(minMax[0].trim());
+ this.ranges[i][1] = Float.parseFloat(minMax[1].trim());
+ }
+ } else {
+ this.ranges = null;
+ }
+ }
+}
diff --git a/milvus/src/main/resources/application.properties b/milvus/src/main/resources/application.properties
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+camel.main.name=MilvusCitiesExample
+camel.main.run-controller=true
+
+input.dir=input
+
+# Milvus
+camel.component.milvus.host=localhost
+camel.component.milvus.port=19530
+
+# OpenAI component (configured for Ollama)
+camel.component.openai.base-url=http://localhost:11434/v1
+camel.component.openai.api-key=ollama
+camel.component.openai.model=granite4:3b
diff --git a/milvus/src/main/resources/camel/milvus-rag.yaml b/milvus/src/main/resources/camel/milvus-rag.yaml
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+- beans:
+ - name: ragCreateCollection
+ type: org.apache.camel.component.milvus.rag.RAGCreateCollection
+ properties:
+ collectionName: "cities"
+ dimension: "3"
+ textFieldName: "city"
+ vectorFieldName: "features"
+ textFieldMaxLength: "128"
+ additionalTextFields: "country,latitude,longitude"
+ - name: ragCreateIndex
+ type: org.apache.camel.component.milvus.rag.RAGCreateIndex
+ properties:
+ collectionName: "cities"
+ vectorFieldName: "features"
+ indexType: "IVF_FLAT"
+ metricType: "L2"
+ - name: ragSearch
+ type: org.apache.camel.component.milvus.rag.RAGSearch
+ properties:
+ collectionName: "cities"
+ outputFields: "city,country,latitude,longitude"
+ limit: "4"
+ - name: ragResultExtractor
+ type: org.apache.camel.component.milvus.rag.RAGResultExtractor
+ properties:
+ outputFields: "city,country,latitude,longitude"
+ - name: ragInsert
+ type: org.apache.camel.component.milvus.rag.RAGInsert
+ properties:
+ collectionName: "cities"
+ vectorFieldName: "features"
+ textFieldMappings: "city=cityName,country=cityCountry,latitude=cityLatitude,longitude=cityLongitude"
+ - name: vectorUtils
+ type: org.apache.camel.example.springboot.milvus.bean.VectorUtils
+ properties:
+ normalizationRanges: "35.0:65.0,-10.0:30.0,0.0:20.0"
+
+# Retry bad LLM responses, then skip
+- onException:
+ exception:
+ - java.lang.NumberFormatException
+ - java.lang.RuntimeException
+ handled:
+ constant: "true"
+ redeliveryPolicy:
+ maximumRedeliveries: 2
+ redeliveryDelay: 1000
+ steps:
+ - log:
+ message: "Skipping ${variable.cityName} after retries: ${exception.message}"
+
+# Create collection and index on startup
+- route:
+ id: init-collection
+ from:
+ uri: timer:init
+ parameters:
+ repeatCount: "1"
+ delay: "1000"
+ steps:
+ - log:
+ message: "Creating Milvus collection: cities"
+ - doTry:
+ steps:
+ - process:
+ ref: ragCreateCollection
+ - to:
+ uri: milvus:cities
+ - log:
+ message: "[milvus] Collection created successfully"
+ - process:
+ ref: ragCreateIndex
+ - to:
+ uri: milvus:cities
+ - log:
+ message: "[milvus] Index created successfully"
+ doCatch:
+ - exception:
+ - java.lang.Exception
+ steps:
+ - log:
+ message: "[milvus] Collection already exists or error: ${exception.message}"
+
+# Read city names from input file and insert them into Milvus
+- route:
+ id: index-cities
+ from:
+ uri: "file:{{input.dir}}"
+ parameters:
+ noop: "true"
+ include: ".*\\.txt"
+ initialDelay: "3000"
+ steps:
+ - log:
+ message: "Processing cities from: ${header.CamelFileName}"
+ - convertBodyTo:
+ type: java.lang.String
+ - split:
+ tokenize: "\n"
+ steps:
+ - filter:
+ simple: "${body.trim().length()} > 0"
+ steps:
+ - to:
+ uri: direct:insert-city
+ - log:
+ message: "All cities indexed. Starting similarity search..."
+ - setBody:
+ expression:
+ constant:
+ expression: "Rome"
+ - to:
+ uri: direct:search-similar
+
+# Ask OpenAI for city data information (lat,lon,pop), then insert into Milvus
+- route:
+ id: insert-city
+ from:
+ uri: direct:insert-city
+ steps:
+ - setVariable:
+ name: cityName
+ expression:
+ simple:
+ expression: "${body.trim()}"
+ - setBody:
+ expression:
+ simple:
+ expression: "Reply with exactly one line of 4 semicolon-separated values for ${variable.cityName}: country;latitude;longitude;population_in_millions. All numeric values must be plain float numbers only, no units or text. No headers, no extra text. Example for Tokyo: Japan;35.68;139.69;13.96"
+ - to:
+ uri: openai:chat-completion
+ - log:
+ message: "[openai] City data for ${variable.cityName}: ${body}"
+ - setVariable:
+ name: cityCountry
+ expression:
+ simple:
+ expression: "${body.trim().split(';')[0].trim()}"
+ - setVariable:
+ name: cityLatitude
+ expression:
+ simple:
+ expression: "${body.trim().split(';')[1].trim()}"
+ - setVariable:
+ name: cityLongitude
+ expression:
+ simple:
+ expression: "${body.trim().split(';')[2].trim()}"
+ - transform:
+ expression:
+ simple:
+ expression: "${body.trim().replaceFirst('^[^;]*;', '')}"
+ - process:
+ ref: vectorUtils
+ - process:
+ ref: ragInsert
+ - to:
+ uri: milvus:cities
+ - log:
+ message: "[milvus] Inserted ${variable.cityName} into Milvus"
+
+# Search for closest cities to a given city
+- route:
+ id: search-closest
+ from:
+ uri: direct:search-closest
+ steps:
+ - setVariable:
+ name: searchCity
+ expression:
+ simple:
+ expression: "${body}"
+ - log:
+ message: "Searching for three closest cities to: ${variable.searchCity} "
+ - setBody:
+ expression:
+ simple:
+ expression: "Reply with exactly one line of 3 semicolon-separated numeric values for ${variable.searchCity}: latitude;longitude;population_in_millions. All values must be plain float numbers only, no units or text. No headers, no extra text. Example: 35.68;139.69;13.96"
+ - to:
+ uri: openai:chat-completion
+ - log:
+ message: "[openai] Search vector for ${variable.searchCity}: ${body}"
+ - process:
+ ref: vectorUtils
+ - process:
+ ref: ragSearch
+ - to:
+ uri: milvus:cities
+ - bean:
+ ref: ragResultExtractor
+ method: extract
+ - log:
+ message: "[milvus] Closest cities to ${variable.searchCity}: ${body}."
+ - setBody:
+ expression:
+ simple:
+ expression: "Milvus vector search found these cities closest to ${variable.searchCity}: ${body}. Excluding ${variable.searchCity} itself, what is the approximate distance in km from ${variable.searchCity} to each? Reply in a single line, comma-separated. Example format: Milan 480km, Zurich 685km, Vienna 766km"
+ - to:
+ uri: openai:chat-completion
+ - log:
+ message: "[openai] Answer: ${body}"
\ No newline at end of file
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@@ -72,6 +72,7 @@
platform-http
platform-http-proxy
pojo
+ milvus
rabbitmq
reactive-streams
resilience4j