GitHub user mattf-horton opened a pull request:

    https://github.com/apache/incubator-metron/pull/481

    METRON-322 Global Batching and Flushing

    This patch starts by adding "batchTimeout" essentially every place 
"batchSize" is used.  Since the configuration-related classes are many-layered, 
this addition is trivial in many cases.
    
    The flush-on-timeout logic is fairly straightforward. It was implemented by 
a refactoring of `BulkWriterComponent` to extract an explicit "flush" from the 
"write" logic, and then call flush from Tick Tuple processing in 
`BulkMessageWriterBolt`.
    
    The tricky part was figuring out the appropriate setting for 
`topology.tick.tuple.freq.secs` if the administrator configures non-default 
batchTimeouts. It is necessary to enumerate the batchTimeout settings for all 
configured sensorNames, which is implemented in 
`IndexingConfigurations::getAllConfiguredTimeouts()`. Then multiple other 
factors must be taken into account to determine the allowed and recommended 
settings, which is implemented in `BatchTimeoutHelper`. If there are better 
ways to accomplish these things, please share your ideas.
    
    For test and review, it may be useful to know that the default value of 
`batchTimeout`, and hence for `topology.tick.tuple.freq.secs`, is 14 seconds 
(which is the default value of `topology.message.timeout.secs` (30 sec) / 2 - 
1).
    
    To unit test this feature, we added `Clock` logic and implemented a 
writable `FakeClock`.  This may be generally useful for testing other 
time-based behavior as we add such functionality.
    
    All configuration issues were done in such a way as to default to "good" 
behavior, with no changes needed in current configs of previously installed 
systems.  In fact, recommended configuration is to leave batchTimeout 
unconfigured, or set it to zero, thereby accepting the system calculated 
default.
    
    After this patch is reviewed and accepted, similar work needs to be done 
for the `ParserWriter`, and possibly other sub-components.  That will be in a 
separate PR.
    
    It is possible to split this patch into sections related to each of 
sub-tasks METRON-516, METRON-577, METRON-329 and METRON-330.  Let me know if 
you would like me to do so.  In the past, people seem to prefer to see a whole 
feature development in one PR, even though it gets a little long, so that's the 
way I'm submitting this one, for now.
    
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You can merge this pull request into a Git repository by running:

    $ git pull https://github.com/mattf-horton/incubator-metron METRON-322

Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at:

    https://github.com/apache/incubator-metron/pull/481.patch

To close this pull request, make a commit to your master/trunk branch
with (at least) the following in the commit message:

    This closes #481
    
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commit c2a700e78143b4c7a143a2b061ffb210cdb2d36f
Author: mattf-horton <mfo...@hortonworks.com>
Date:   2017-03-07T01:29:13Z

    METRON-322 Global Batching and Flushing
    changes for sub-tasks METRON-516 and METRON-577, METRON-329 and METRON-330.

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