I agree with Mike. We can use a decorator mechanism for this. If you would like 
to see this feature, which works in a more generic case. We should not be just 
supporting a "timestamp" header etc. You can file a jira for this, to support 
modification of event headers based on configuration etc. Something like this 
might be useful to even list the hops that the event passed through. So I'd 
rather see a generic mechanism, than a mechanism to insert timestamps.  

Inder: You are welcome to implement this ;)

Thanks,
Hari

-- 
Hari Shreedharan


On Friday, April 13, 2012 at 4:28 PM, Mike Percy wrote:

> On Apr 13, 2012, at 5:49 AM, Inder Pall wrote:
> 
> > how about supporting something like
> > "host2.sources.src1.header.timestamp=true" as config.
> > This overrides time-stamp header on host2->src1(avro source) for all events.
> > 
> 
> 
> Shouldn't it go on the HDFS sink config, so that the HDFS sink / BucketWriter 
> uses the current machine time instead of the header time for bucketing?
> 
> If we want to actually modify Event headers inline then we should do it via a 
> generic plugin / decorator mechanism instead of one-off features.
> 
> Regards,
> Mike
> 
> 


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