Are you sure you're not sending the [ , ] over UDP as well ;-) Can you create a template of your flow and send it over? Perhaps just attach to a JIRA for this. MergeContent is a powerful and useful thing so if you're seeing funky behavior we want to sort it out quickly.
On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 8:47 PM, Bryan Bende <bbe...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm trying to use MergeContent to merge json documents. I have the Header. > Demarcator, and Footer properties pointing to files with [ , ] > respectively. I left all other properties the same, and set Max Entries to > 5 and Max Bin Age to 10 seconds. > > I have a simple flow with ListenUDP -> MergeContent -> PutSolrContentStream > (from the pull request). If I send a bunch of json documents over UDP, most > of them will merge correctly, but I'll see a couple where the demarcator > didn't get inserted between two json documents. > > Any thoughts as to why this would happen? > > I added a significant amount of logging to the getDescriptorFileContent() > method in MergeContent to see if there was a reason why it would return > null for the demarcator, but nothing obvious is really jumping out at me.