Yes, that's also the conclusion I came to. I could not find where in the UI code is the call to Utils.isSystemId(String). One option would be to be able to define in the configuration a list of streams to treat as system. Does the UI code access the configuration files at all?
Thanks Harsha On 21 July 2014 16:43, Harsha <st...@harsha.io> wrote: > thats caused by validate-ids! function which checks if the users stream > id is system id and throws that exception. > So looks like "__" reserved for system streams only not allowed for users. > > > On Mon, Jul 21, 2014, at 08:30 AM, Julien Nioche wrote: > > Hi Harsha > > Am getting : > > 5935 [main] WARN backtype.storm.daemon.nimbus - Topology submission > exception. (topology name='QueuePopulator') #<InvalidTopologyException > InvalidTopologyException(msg:__log is not a valid stream id)> > 5941 [main] ERROR org.apache.zookeeper.server.NIOServerCnxnFactory - > Thread Thread[main,5,main] died > backtype.storm.generated.InvalidTopologyException: null > at backtype.storm.daemon.common$validate_ids_BANG_.invoke(common.clj:126) > ~[storm-core-0.9.2-incubating.jar:0.9.2-incubating] > at > backtype.storm.daemon.common$validate_basic_BANG_.invoke(common.clj:142) > ~[storm-core-0.9.2-incubating.jar:0.9.2-incubating] > at > backtype.storm.daemon.common$system_topology_BANG_.invoke(common.clj:297) > ~[storm-core-0.9.2-incubating.jar:0.9.2-incubating] > > Thanks > > Julien > > > On 21 July 2014 16:22, Harsha <st...@harsha.io> wrote: > > > Hi Julien, > UI code calls Utils.isSystemId(String) which checks if the stream > id starts with "__". What error are you seeing when you renamed into > "__log". > -Harsha > > > > On Mon, Jul 21, 2014, at 03:45 AM, Julien Nioche wrote: > > Hi, > > I have a custom stream for handling logs (called '_log') and send them to > ElasticSearch for indexing. The log tuples are generated by my spouts and > bolts. My pipeline also uses the default stream for the normal processing > of tuples from RabbitMQ. > > Everything works fine but I would like to be able to treat this _log > stream as one of the system ones (e.g. __metrics) and be able to hide > them from the stats. The summary of Emitted / Transferred currently takes > these log events into account which is not very useful. > > I tried renaming the stream into '__log' but this resulted in an error > when trying to start the topoloy. > > Any idea of how I could do that? > > Thanks > > Julien > > -- > > Open Source Solutions for Text Engineering > > http://digitalpebble.blogspot.com/ > http://www.digitalpebble.com > http://twitter.com/digitalpebble > > > > > > > -- > > Open Source Solutions for Text Engineering > > http://digitalpebble.blogspot.com/ > http://www.digitalpebble.com > http://twitter.com/digitalpebble > > > -- Open Source Solutions for Text Engineering http://digitalpebble.blogspot.com/ http://www.digitalpebble.com http://twitter.com/digitalpebble