Hi, You can have a root configuration key that will give the list of keys to look for: Or you can look for the existence of http.N key in the configuration object.
Ex <property > <name>myConfig.eventName.list</name> <value>http.1, http.2, ..., http.x</value> </property> Can you clarify what the eventName is? /Jerome. On 4/21/10 3:31 PM, "Bill Graham" <billgra...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > As a follow up to CHUKWA-477, I'm writing a class called HttpTriggerAction > that can hit one or more URLs upon successful completion of a demux job. I'd > like to contribute it back unless anyone objects. Anyway, I'm looking for > feedback though on how to configure this object. > > The issue is that since the class can hit N urls, it needs N sets of key-value > configurations. The hadoop configurations model is just name-value pairs > though, so I'm kicking around ideas around the best way to handle this. > > Specifically, I need to configure values for url, an optional HTTP method > (default is GET), an optional collection of HTTP headers and an optional post > body. I was thinking of just making a convention where key values could be > incremented like below, but wanted to see if there were better suggestions out > there. > > chukwa.trigger.action.[eventName].http.1.url=http://site.com/firstTrigger > chukwa.trigger.action.[eventName].http.1.headers=User-Agent:chukwa > > chukwa.trigger.action.[eventName].http.2.url=http://site.com/secondTrigger > chukwa.trigger.action.[eventName].http.2.method=POST > chukwa.trigger.action.[eventName].http.2.headers=User-Agent:chukwa,Accepts:tex > t/plain > chukwa.trigger.action.[eventName].http.2.body=Some post body to submit > .... > chukwa.trigger.action.[eventName].http.N.url= > chukwa.trigger.action.[eventName].http.N.method= > chukwa.trigger.action.[eventName].http.N.headers= > chukwa.trigger.action.[eventName].http.N.body= > > Since the action could potentially be used by other types of events, the event > name should be included. This implies that we should add an eventName field to > the TriggerAction.execute method in CHUKWA-477. > > Thoughts? > > thanks, > Bill > > >
