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Roshan Naik commented on FLUME-2781:
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Thanks for confirming [~gherreros]
I got a confused when i saw this stmt in some of the automated comments here
in this jira.
{quote}"Kafka Channel with parseAsFlumeEvent=true should write data as is, not
as flume events." .{quote}
which i believe is exactly the opposite of what is intended.
> A Kafka Channel defined as parseAsFlumeEvent=false cannot be correctly used
> by a Flume source
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>
> Key: FLUME-2781
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLUME-2781
> Project: Flume
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Affects Versions: v1.6.0
> Reporter: Gonzalo Herreros
> Assignee: Gonzalo Herreros
> Labels: easyfix, patch
> Fix For: v1.7.0
>
> Attachments: FLUME-2781.patch
>
>
> 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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