HI, On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 7:17 PM, Roman Shaposhnik <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 9:18 AM, Brock Noland <[email protected]> wrote: >> 1) It's a sequence file, you can change it a text file if you want. See >> FileType here http://flume.apache.org/FlumeUserGuide.html#hdfs-sink > > Don't you also have to change a serialization format to get rid of the binary > structure completely? IOW, you'd have to add something like: > agent.sinks.hdfsSink.hdfs.serializer = > org.apache.flume.serialization.BodyTextEventSerializer
BodyTextEventSerializer is the default serializer. Serializers decide how to turn Events into records while fileType decides what type of file the event is written to. Brock
