I have a question. Say I want to use AVRO as my serialization format to speak between service applications. Do I need to use AVRO RPC for this or can I just exchange AVRO messages over HTTP?
Also whats the difference between an IPC client and an HTTP IPC client? https://github.com/apache/avro/tree/trunk/lang/ruby/test Thanks On May 29, 2013, at 8:02 PM, Mike Percy <mpe...@apache.org> wrote: > There is no Ruby support for the Netty Avro RPC protocol that I know of. But > I'm not sure why that matters, other than the fact that the Flume Thrift > support it's not in an official release yet. > > You could also take a look at the Flume HTTP source for a REST-based > interface, but to accept binary data instead of JSON (the default) you would > need to write a small bit of Java code and plug that in. > > Make sure you differentiate between using Avro as a data storage format and > as an RPC mechanism. They are two very different things and don't need to be > tied together. Today, the data storage aspect is more mature and has much > wider language support. > > Mike > > > On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 9:30 AM, Mark <static.void....@gmail.com> wrote: > So basically Avro RPC is out of the question? Instead I would need to Avro > Message -> Thrift -> Flume? Is that along the right lines or am I missing > something? > > > On May 28, 2013, at 5:02 PM, Mike Percy <mpe...@apache.org> wrote: > >> Regarding Ruby support, we recently added support for Thrift RPC, so you can >> now send messages to Flume via Ruby and other non-JVM languages. We don't >> have out-of-the-box client APIs for those yet but would be happy to accept >> patches for it :) > >
