Hi Alex,
Sorry, no, I didn't mean tailing of N files into one file.
What I'm wondering is whether I could "steal" a few Flume classes that handle
the tailing functionality without having to use all of Flume.
Imagine I want to use Flume's tailing functionality in my app, so I want to use
Flume as a library.... not being familiar with Flume's APIs, imagine if in my
app I wanted to do this:
FlumeTail ft = new FlumeTail(new MyLineHandler());
ft.addFile("/tmp/foo.log");
ft.exec()
class MyLineHandler extends SomeBaseFlumeLineHandler {
void handleLine(String line) {
// do whatever I want with that 'line'
}
}
So my questions are:
* Is something like the above even possible?
* Could I borrow a few Flume classes just for doing something like the above?
Thanks,
Otis
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>________________________________
> From: Alexander Alten-Lorenz <[email protected]>
>To: [email protected]
>Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2013 4:19 AM
>Subject: Re: Using Flume *only* for tailing?
>
>
>Hi Otis,
>
>Do you mean tailing into one file? Maybe 100 exec sources => Flume => one text
>file in a local filesystem?
>
>- Alex
>
>On Jun 25, 2013, at 6:11 PM, Otis Gospodnetic <[email protected]>
>wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm wondering if Flume (its ExecSource?) can be used separately from
>> the rest of Flume?
>>
>> Specifically, I need to tail a log file from a Java app and then do
>> something with each new line. I just want my Java app to get each new
>> line from tailing and process it in some custom way. In other words,
>> I don't really need Flume to be involved in anything beyond tailing
>> files.
>>
>> Is that doable?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Otis
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