Github user justinleet commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/incubator-metron/pull/486#discussion_r107683392 --- Diff: metron-platform/metron-pcap-backend/src/main/java/org/apache/metron/spout/pcap/HDFSWriterCallback.java --- @@ -96,16 +109,18 @@ public HDFSWriterCallback withConfig(HDFSWriterConfig config) { this.config = config; return this; } + @Override public List<Object> apply(List<Object> tuple, EmitContext context) { - - List<Object> keyValue = (List<Object>) tuple.get(0); - LongWritable ts = (LongWritable) keyValue.get(0); - BytesWritable rawPacket = (BytesWritable)keyValue.get(1); + byte[] key = (byte[]) tuple.get(0); + byte[] value = (byte[]) tuple.get(1); + if(!config.getDeserializer().deserializeKeyValue(key, value, KeyValue.key.get(), KeyValue.value.get())) { + LOG.debug("Dropping malformed packet..."); --- End diff -- I'm good with that. I had mostly discarded the worry about size because this is in debugging statements anyway and typically with storm you're setting reasonable timeouts on logging levels anyway.
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