Github user simonellistonball commented on the issue:
https://github.com/apache/metron/pull/946
@ottobackwards in it's current state, sort of, but you're not required to
turn it on. In the desired (reflection based nifi style state) no, it should
load it and use it if present, but otherwise just use the vanilla transport
client. Of course someday they're going to force us to REST, which will bring
all this up again no doubt.---
