I personally don't use ES as part of my storm work, so I don't necessarily feel qualified to answer this. In general though I really do like to see storm come with batteries included. If ES1 is not end of life, and there is a community of people who want to continue using it/supporting it, I would say lets continue to do so. If that is not true, or if ES offers a backwards compatible client that could sway things for me to say lets just go forward with ES2. - Bobby
On Wednesday, September 14, 2016 2:47 PM, Aaron Niskodé-Dossett <doss...@gmail.com> wrote: Hi all, I started a a discussion about this a while ago, but didn't take it to a conclusion (my $realjob, etc., etc.). There are multiple PRs open to provide an Elastic Search 2.x bolt to the Storm project. There are two different approaches: 1. Add side-by-side support for 2.x. Example: https://github.com/apache/storm/pull/1337 (*FULL DISCLOSURE*: this is my own PR). [I also have some functionality enhancements in this PR, but that's not relevant to this discussion.] 2. Upgrade existing bolt. Example, https://github.com/apache/storm/pull/1396 The drawback to approach 1 is that it duplicates a lot of code. The drawback to approach 2 is that it drops support for ES 1.x. ES 2.X has been out for a while and if we are serious about supporting it, we need to have a way to write to ES 2.X. I believe approach number 1 is ideal (again, it's my own PR) and possibly deprecating the existing 1.X bolt. I'd love to hear thoughts from others!