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Going about updateing fluent-plugin-flume
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This is a little note about how I would go about updating fluent-plugin-flume to resolve this issue.

Cause

The current fluent-plugin-flume supports 0.9 protocol. However, most curernt deployments are on the 1.5 branch. This causes a compatibility issue because the Thrift definition for Flume changed between 0.9 and 1.5.

How to fix it

  1. We need to update the flume.thrift file. The Thrift file definition for Flume 1.5 can be found here.
  2. The actual Thrift server code in Ruby should be generated using Thrift compiler. The 0.9.1 release should work. Use the updated flume.thrift to generate the server code (in lib/fluent/plugin/thrift)
  3. Probably it is best to keep support flume-og. One way to do it is to keep the current Thrift code, probably in a different subdirectory, and switch the "require" statement based on a configuration parameter. This is what the Flumelogger project does: https://github.com/lsjostro/ruby-flumelogger/blob/master/lib/flume-logger/logger.rb#L59
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