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Jaehong Choi commented on FLUME-2052:
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This happened to me as well. It would be nice to add a configuration to decide
on MalformedInput exception.
> Flume hangs on malformed characters while proccesing
> ----------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: FLUME-2052
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLUME-2052
> Project: Flume
> Issue Type: Bug
> Environment: centOS 6.3
> Flume 1.3.0
> Reporter: greg glazeweas
> Labels: MalformedInputException, charset, flume
>
> When parsing a file with messed up encoding flume spits this error:
> 23 May 2013 22:06:29,446 ERROR [pool-12-thread-1]
> (org.apache.flume.source.SpoolDirectorySource$SpoolDirectoryRunnable.run:164)
> - Uncaught exception in Runnable
> java.nio.charset.MalformedInputException: Input length = 1
> at java.nio.charset.CoderResult.throwException(CoderResult.java:277)
> at
> org.apache.flume.serialization.ResettableFileInputStream.readChar(ResettableFileInputStream.java:162)
> at
> org.apache.flume.serialization.LineDeserializer.readLine(LineDeserializer.java:134)
> at
> org.apache.flume.serialization.LineDeserializer.readEvent(LineDeserializer.java:72)
> at
> org.apache.flume.serialization.LineDeserializer.readEvents(LineDeserializer.java:91)
> at
> org.apache.flume.client.avro.ReliableSpoolingFileEventReader.readEvents(ReliableSpoolingFileEventReader.java:221)
> at
> org.apache.flume.source.SpoolDirectorySource$SpoolDirectoryRunnable.run(SpoolDirectorySource.java:154)
> at
> java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:471)
> at
> java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRunAndReset(FutureTask.java:351)
> at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.runAndReset(FutureTask.java:178)
> at
> java.util.concurrent.ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor$ScheduledFutureTask.access$301(ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor.java:178)
> at
> java.util.concurrent.ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor$ScheduledFutureTask.run(ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor.java:293)
> at
> java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145)
> at
> java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615)
> at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:722)
> It would be good to skip such characters, ignore them or delete. Corrupt
> signs come from spamming engines, flume cant handle them at all.
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