Receive a message in the producer's structure or envelope.
Message Transformation
Content Enricher
Look up or compute missing information and add it to the message before forwarding it to the next participant.
How do we communicate with another system if the message originator does not have all the required data items available?Adapted from Enterprise Integration Patterns under CC BY 3.0. The visualization and explanatory content on this page are original GateSift material.
Original GateSift visualization
How Content Enricher works
The message representation changes while its business meaning is preserved or enhanced.
Source format
Content Enricher
Target format
Apply Content Enricher to reshape, enrich, wrap or normalize the content.
Deliver a representation that the receiving system can understand.
What this pattern helps you decide
Look up or compute missing information and add it to the message before forwarding it to the next participant.
What happens when processing fails or the same message is delivered twice?
Where does state, correlation or routing configuration live?
How will operators trace the message and understand the decision path?
Where you may see it
- Logic Apps data lookup
- Azure Function enrichment
- APIM send-request then set-body
How the analyzers can surface it
- APIM send-request and variables
- BizTalk orchestration lookups
Pattern detection is contextual. GateSift should present these as architectural signals, not claim a pattern is implemented solely because one policy statement or adapter exists.
Source, licence and attribution
The pattern name and selected problem statement are adapted from Enterprise Integration Patterns by Gregor Hohpe and Bobby Woolf under CC BY 3.0. GateSift summaries, Azure mappings, analyzer guidance and diagrams are original. No endorsement by the original authors is implied.