It'd be great if you could submit the patch upstream to Flume! :-) 

-- 
Hari Shreedharan


On Tuesday, October 30, 2012 at 4:06 PM, Paul Chavez wrote:

> Thank you, I was unsure if that was desired behavior or not. I updated the 
> class as a POC to add exit codes for each of those catch blocks and it works 
> great.
>  
> Thanks,
> Paul
>  
> 
> From: Hari Shreedharan [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2012 11:47 AM
> To: [email protected] (mailto:[email protected])
> Subject: Re: Help determining exit code from flume avro-client
> 
> Hi Paul. 
> 
> Thanks for reporting this. It does look like Flume does not return non-zero 
> error code even if there was an exception. I filed 
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLUME-1670 to address this.  
> 
> Thanks, 
> Hari
> 
> --  
> Hari Shreedharan
> 
> 
> On Tuesday, October 30, 2012 at 11:25 AM, Paul Chavez wrote:
> 
> > I am working on getting the flume avro-client functionality working on 
> > Windows, and am currently stuck on how to determine if the file was sent 
> > successfully.
> >  
> > I used the blog post at 
> > http://mapredit.blogspot.com/2012/07/run-flume-13x-on-windows.html to guide 
> > me and have built the 1.4.0 snapshot successfully. I can manually send 
> > files along to flume using the 
> > ''org.apache.flume.client.avro.AvroCLIClient" class.
> >  
> > The full command I am using is invoked via batch file with the following 
> > single line:
> > "C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jdk1.6.0_37\bin\java.exe" -Xmx20m 
> > -Dlog4j.configuration=file:///C:\apache-flume-1.4.0-SNAPSHOT\conf\log4j.properties
> >  -cp "C:\apache-flume-1.4.0-SNAPSHOT\lib\*" 
> > org.apache.flume.client.avro.AvroCLIClient -H 10.20.2.8 -p 6240 -F%1
> >  
> > My intention is to invoke from Powershell like so:
> > .\flume.bat C:\IISLogs\W3SVC100\u_ex121029.log
> >  
> > This is working well and I am able to successfully send IIS and our app 
> > logs to flume and then onto HDFS without issues. Now I am trying to 
> > automate the process, and need to know if the operation failed for some 
> > reason. If I simply turn off the flume source I can trigger an error which 
> > is dumped to console like so (using flume.root.logger=DEBUG,console in the 
> > log4j file):
> >  
> >  
> > 2012-10-30 11:14:22,185 (main) [ERROR - 
> > org.apache.flume.client.avro.AvroCLIClient.main(AvroCLIClient.java:76)] 
> > Unable t
> > o open connection to Flume. Exception follows.
> > org.apache.flume.FlumeException: NettyAvroRpcClient { host: x.x.x.x, port: 
> > 6240 }: RPC connection error
> >         at 
> > org.apache.flume.api.NettyAvroRpcClient.connect(NettyAvroRpcClient.java:117)
> >         at 
> > org.apache.flume.api.NettyAvroRpcClient.connect(NettyAvroRpcClient.java:93)
> >         at 
> > org.apache.flume.api.NettyAvroRpcClient.configure(NettyAvroRpcClient.java:507)
> >         at 
> > org.apache.flume.api.RpcClientFactory.getDefaultInstance(RpcClientFactory.java:169)
> >         at 
> > org.apache.flume.client.avro.AvroCLIClient.run(AvroCLIClient.java:168)
> >         at 
> > org.apache.flume.client.avro.AvroCLIClient.main(AvroCLIClient.java:68)
> > Caused by: java.io.IOException: Error connecting to /x.x.x.x:6240
> >         at 
> > org.apache.avro.ipc.NettyTransceiver.getChannel(NettyTransceiver.java:261)
> >         at 
> > org.apache.avro.ipc.NettyTransceiver.<init>(NettyTransceiver.java:203)
> >         at 
> > org.apache.avro.ipc.NettyTransceiver.<init>(NettyTransceiver.java:152)
> >         at 
> > org.apache.flume.api.NettyAvroRpcClient.connect(NettyAvroRpcClient.java:106)
> >         ... 5 more
> > Caused by: java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused: no further 
> > information
> >         at sun.nio.ch.SocketChannelImpl.checkConnect(Native Method)
> >         at 
> > sun.nio.ch.SocketChannelImpl.finishConnect(SocketChannelImpl.java:599)
> >         at 
> > org.jboss.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioClientSocketPipelineSink$Boss.connect(NioClientSocketPipelineSink.java:
> > 401)
> >         at 
> > org.jboss.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioClientSocketPipelineSink$Boss.processSelectedKeys(NioClientSocketPipeli
> > neSink.java:370)
> >         at 
> > org.jboss.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioClientSocketPipelineSink$Boss.run(NioClientSocketPipelineSink.java:292)
> >  
> >  
> >         at 
> > java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:886)
> >         at 
> > java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:908)
> >         at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)
> > 2012-10-30 11:14:22,185 (main) [DEBUG - 
> > org.apache.flume.client.avro.AvroCLIClient.main(AvroCLIClient.java:81)] 
> > Exiting 
> >  
> > Despite the ERROR message being logged to the console, java.exe still exits 
> > with code 0, indicating success. Is there a way to use the console appender 
> > to trigger java.exe to send a non-0 exit code if an error occurs so the 
> > rest of my automation tooling can detect the error? I can parse the output 
> > with Powershell and have it send a non-0 exit code itself, but looking for 
> > a more 'native' way to do this.
> >  
> > thanks,
> > Paul Chavez
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> 

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