Currently escaping is not supported by File Roll Sink, but I think there is a jira to enable it - perhaps you want to submit a patch?
Cheers, Hari On Friday, June 14, 2013 at 12:04 PM, Lenin Raj wrote: > Hello, > > I tried to use %Y in my sink.directory in the file_roll sink but it resulted > in exception: > > 15 Jun 2013 00:26:20,596 ERROR > [SinkRunner-PollingRunner-DefaultSinkProcessor] > (org.apache.flume.SinkRunner$PollingRunner.run:160) - Unable to deliver > event. Exception follows. > org.apache.flume.EventDeliveryException: Failed to open file > /var/emaillenin/card/data/%Y/1371236170080-1 while delivering event > at > org.apache.flume.sink.RollingFileSink.process(RollingFileSink.java:177) > at > org.apache.flume.sink.DefaultSinkProcessor.process(DefaultSinkProcessor.java:68) > at org.apache.flume.SinkRunner$PollingRunner.run(SinkRunner.java:147) > at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662) > Caused by: java.io.FileNotFoundException: > /var/emaillenin/card/data/%Y/1371236170080-1 (No such file or directory) > at java.io.FileOutputStream.open(Native Method) > at java.io.FileOutputStream.<init>(FileOutputStream.java:194) > at java.io.FileOutputStream.<init>(FileOutputStream.java:145) > at > org.apache.flume.sink.RollingFileSink.process(RollingFileSink.java:169) > ... 3 more > > When I remove %Y from the path and tried again, the files get created > successfuly. Are there any ways to use these escape sequences in file_roll > sink? > > Thanks, > Lenin
