Hello friends, I am new to flume and have written a python script to fetch some data from social media. My response is JSON. I am seeking help on following issues: 1. I am finding it hard to make python and flume talk. Is it just my ignorance or it is indeed a long route? AFAIK, I need to understand thrift API and Avro etc to achieve this. I also read about pipes. Would this be a simple implementation
2. I am equally comfortable (uncomfortable) in java. Hence wondering if its better to re-write my application in Java so that I can easily integrate it with flume. Are there any advantages of having a java application, as all of hadoop is java? 3. I need to schedule the agent to run on a daily basis. Which of the above approaches would help me achieve this easily? 4. Going by this - http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/flume-user/201306.mbox/%[email protected]%3Elooks like we need to manually clean up disk space even with flume. I am not clear on the advantages I would have with flume over using a simple cron job to do the task. I can manually write statements like "hadoop fs -put <location of output file on local> <location on hdfs>" in the cron job instead. Appreciate your help and guidance regards, Sunita
