[jira] [Created] (STORM-160) Allow ShellBolt to set env vars (particularly PATH)

["James Xu (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

James Xu created STORM-160:
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             Summary: Allow ShellBolt to set env vars (particularly PATH)
                 Key: STORM-160
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/STORM-160
             Project: Apache Storm (Incubating)
          Issue Type: New Feature
            Reporter: James Xu
            Priority: Minor


https://github.com/nathanmarz/storm/issues/32

While trying to implement a multilang based bolt, I discovered that binaries outside of /usr/bin, /usr/sbin, and /sbin, are not found despite being installed in say, /usr/local/bin.

Is there a way to specify a PATH variable so when storm creates the sub shell, these binaries can be located by name? If not, can we get one added?

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nathanmarz: This is a good idea. For the meantime, does using the full path of the binary (e.g., /usr/local/bin/python) work around this issue?

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dinedal: That works for processes that don't require any other environment variables.

Also, in cases where developers have multiple versions of a program (say, RVM) and the production servers have another one installed on the system, it means changing code for deploying the topology.

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nicoo: +1

To work around this issue you can start your multilang bolt from a bash script that set all needed env vars.



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