Gonzalo Herreros created FLUME-2781:
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Summary: A Kafka Channel defined as parseAsFlumeEvent=false cannot
be written by a source
Key: FLUME-2781
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLUME-2781
Project: Flume
Issue Type: Improvement
Reporter: Gonzalo Herreros
When a Kafka channel is configured as parseAsFlumeEvent=false, the channel will
read events from the topic as text instead of serialized Avro Flume events.
This is useful so Flume can read from an existing Kafka topic, where other
Kafka clients publish as text.
However, if you use a Flume source on that channel, it will still write the
events as Avro so it will create an inconsistency and those events will fail to
be read correctly.
Also, this would allow a Flume source to write to a Kafka channel and any Kafka
subscriber to listen to Flume events passing through without binary
dependencies.
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