File component's [consumer.]bridgeErrorHandler in conjunction with startingDirectoryMustExist - exception

Question

I have a route (with Camel 2.23.1) like:
from("file://not.existing.dir?autoCreate=false&startingDirectoryMustExist=true&consumer.bridgeErrorHandler=true")
.onException(Exception.class)
.handled(true)
.log(LoggingLevel.ERROR, "...exception text...")
.end()
.log(LoggingLevel.INFO, "...process text...")
...
(I tried it with just &bridgeErrorHandler, too, since according to the latest doc the consumer. prefix seems to be not necessary any longer.)
According to the doc of startingDirectoryMustExist:
| startingDirectoryMustExist | [...] Will thrown an exception if the directory doesn’t exist. |
the following exception is thrown:
org.apache.camel.FailedToCreateRouteException: Failed to create route route1:
Route(route1)[[From[file://not.existing.dir?autoCreate=false...
because of Starting directory does not exist: not.existing.dir
...
but, despite of the doc and the description of [consumer.]bridgeErrorHandler it's propagated to the caller, i.e neither "exception text" nor "process text" are printed.
There is a unit test FileConsumerBridgeRouteExceptionHandlerTest that covers consumer.bridgeErrorHandler, so I think this works basically. Can it be that [consumer.]bridgeErrorHandler doesn't work in conjunction with the exception thrown by startingDirectoryMustExist?
Do I have to write my own [consumer.]exceptionHandler as mentioned in this answer to "Camel - Stop route when the consuming directory not exists"?
There also a post on the mailing list from 2014 that reports similar behaviour with startingDirectoryMustExist and consumer.bridgeErrorHandler.
UPDATE
After TRACEing and debugging through the code I found that the exception is propagated as follows:
FileEndpoint.createConsumer()
throw new FileNotFoundException(...);
--> RouteService.warmUp()
throw new FailedToCreateRouteException(...)
--> DefaultCamelContext.doStart()
(re)throw e
--> ServiceSupport.start()
(re)throw e
I couldn't find any point where bridgeErrorHandler comes into play.
Setting breakpoints on BridgeExceptionHandlerToErrorHandler's constructor and all of its handleException() methods doesn't stop at any of them.
Am I still missing something?

Answer 1

You should use the directoryMustExist option instead, then you can have the error during polling, which is where the bridge error handler can be triggered. The startingDirectoryMustExist option is checked during creating the consumer and therefore before the polling and where the bridge error handler operates.
See also the JIRA ticket: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CAMEL-13174