Hi all,
suppose you need to process input available on source.host and the
results should finally end up on dest.host. A storm topology shall do
the processing.
It is easy to write a sprout that fetches the data and emits it into the
topology. Similarly a sink-bolt can write the result somewhere.
But now suppose that the data is available only locally on source.host
in the file system. Is it possible and natural to make source.host a
machine in the Storm cluster but somehow make sure that *only* the
sprout is executed on source.host. Similarly, would it be possible to
bind a sink bolt to one specific machine, the dest.host?
If this is not a possible or not a preferred way to do it, are there any
specific techniques used to provide input to a sprout beyond whatever
remote access methods happen to be available (smb, nfs, ssh, http)?
Thanks for any hints,
Harald.
