Maybe off topic for this discussion, but what is the additional work? I *think* Justin's PR could be used to completely replace the non-stellar geo enrichment, but I'm curious if I missed something.
On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 4:32 PM, Nick Allen <n...@nickallen.org> wrote: > As part of Justin's work on PR 421 > <https://github.com/apache/incubator-metron/pull/421> [1], he added a > rather slick little Stellar function that lets you query for location data > based on an IP; GEO_GET("200.200.200.200"). > > We currently use a separate bolt to perform geo-enrichment. With Justin's > PR and a little additional work, it would be possible to replace the > existing mechanism for geo-enrichment, with one driven by Stellar. > Geo-enrichment just becomes a Stellar function call. > > The advantage here is that it could... > > - Simplify the configuration for the user > - Simplify the underlying enrichment topology > > I may be reaching a little too far, but it might be possible to collapse > all forms of enrichment to Stellar. Hmm... that might be interesting. > > See the original discussion here. > <https://github.com/apache/incubator-metron/pull/421#discussion_r97878462> > [2] > > -- > > > [1] https://github.com/apache/incubator-metron/pull/421 > [2] https://github.com/apache/incubator-metron/pull/421# > discussion_r97878462 > > > > -- > Nick Allen <n...@nickallen.org> >
