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(Updated Aug. 4, 2012, 6:59 a.m.)


Review request for Flume.


Description (updated)
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This patch extends the existing avro client to support a file-based spooling 
mechanism. See in-line documentation for precise details, but the basic idea is 
that a user can have a spool directory where files are deposited for ingestion 
into flume. Once ingested the files are clearly renamed and the implementation 
guarantees at-least-once delivery semantics similar to those achieved within 
flume itself, even across failures and restarts of the JVM running the code.

I feel vaguely uneasy about building this as part of the standlone avro client 
rather than as its own source. An alternative would be to build this as a 
proper source (in fact, there are some ad-hoc transaction semantics used here 
which would really be a better fit for a source). Interested in hearing 
feedback on that as well. The benefit of having this in the avro client is that 
you don't need the flume runner scripts which are not windows compatible.


This addresses bug FlUME-1425.
    https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FlUME-1425


Diffs
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  flume-ng-core/src/main/java/org/apache/flume/client/avro/AvroCLIClient.java 
4a5ecae 
  
flume-ng-core/src/main/java/org/apache/flume/client/avro/BufferedLineReader.java
 PRE-CREATION 
  flume-ng-core/src/main/java/org/apache/flume/client/avro/LineReader.java 
PRE-CREATION 
  
flume-ng-core/src/main/java/org/apache/flume/client/avro/SpoolingFileLineReader.java
 PRE-CREATION 
  
flume-ng-core/src/test/java/org/apache/flume/client/avro/TestBufferedLineReader.java
 PRE-CREATION 
  
flume-ng-core/src/test/java/org/apache/flume/client/avro/TestSpoolingFileLineReader.java
 PRE-CREATION 

Diff: https://reviews.apache.org/r/6377/diff/


Testing
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Extensive unit tests and I also built and played with this using a stub flume 
agent. If you look at the JIRA I have a configuration file for an agent that 
will print out Avro events to the command line - that's helpful when testing 
this.


Thanks,

Patrick Wendell

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