Github user harishreedharan commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/807#issuecomment-49704453
Thanks for taking a look Patrick. The reason this really is not going into
Flume itself is that Flume sinks are push model (this sink is hacking around
it). For now, I don't expect a polling model sink to get committed to Flume,
plus this is a very special case compared to the normal sinks - and it is more
specific than general purpose.
I will look into that SparkFlumeEvent - for now, it seems like it should be
possible. Will update this later if needed.
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