using Storm to route TCP requests

[David Novogrodsky <da...@gmail.com>]

All,

Here is a question if Storm can generate nodes while a topology is running.

I have a challenge.  The task is to open a socket to a server and to keep
the socket open for streaming data.  I would like to use Storm to analyze
the data going across the socket in real-time. The trick is that there are
several servers that the system could connect to; the remote client is the
entity requesting the  connection.   The new system will not know which
server to connect to; there may not be an approved list.

Can Storm listen to a server socket?

Can Storm route a TCP request through to a bolt that sends the information
to the requested server?  Basically an emiter that creates a TCP request
sent in a server socket.

Can Storm create a new bolt that connects to a new server?  We will not
have a list of approved servers before hand.


David Novogrodsky
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