[jira] [Commented] (FLUME-2917) Provide netcat UDP source as alternative to TCP

["Tristan Stevens (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Tristan Stevens commented on FLUME-2917:
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[~bessbd] Do you think this source has value? I'd need to add a section to the docs, but I've seen many cases where UDP would be preferable to TCP.

> Provide netcat UDP source as alternative to TCP
> -----------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: FLUME-2917
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLUME-2917
>             Project: Flume
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: Sinks+Sources
>    Affects Versions: v1.6.0
>            Reporter: Tristan Stevens
>            Priority: Minor
>         Attachments: FLUME-2917.patch
>
>
> Currently Flume provides a Netcat TCP source, however Netcat is often used with UDP. There is an implementation of a UDP client in the SyslogUDP source, this request takes this implementation and strips out the Syslog parts, thus forming a Netcat UDP source - where each datagram is recorded as a Flume event.
> The implementation is provided for this at https://github.com/tmgstevens/FlumeNetcatUDPSource and also provided as an attached patch for inclusion.
> N.B. Unit tests are provided for this.



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