[jira] [Updated] (FLUME-2010) Support Avro records in Log4jAppender and the HDFS Sink

["Tom White (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Tom White updated FLUME-2010:
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    Attachment: FLUME-2010.patch

Here's an early patch for discussion. The idea is that you can log Avro records simply using Log4j:

{code}
Logger logger = Logger.getLogger(...);
GenericRecord appEvent = ...;
logger.info(appEvent);
{code}

and they end up in HDFS by setting the HDFS sink {{serializer}} to {{org.apache.flume.serialization.GenericAvroEventSerializer$Builder}}.

There's an example at https://github.com/tomwhite/flume-log4j-example (adapted from https://github.com/mpercy/flume-log4j-example).
                
> Support Avro records in Log4jAppender and the HDFS Sink
> -------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: FLUME-2010
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLUME-2010
>             Project: Flume
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: Client SDK, Sinks+Sources
>            Reporter: Tom White
>            Assignee: Tom White
>             Fix For: v1.4.0
>
>         Attachments: FLUME-2010.patch
>
>
> It would be nice to support logging arbitrary Avro records via the Log4j Flume logger, and have them written to HDFS in Avro data files (using an appropriately configured HDFS sink).

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