[FLUME-2373] Enable configuration to switch thrift source serialization protocol

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.6.0
• Component/s: Sinks+Sources
• Assignee: Stefan Krawczyk
• Reporter: Stefan Krawczyk
• Created: 21/Apr/14 23:59
• Updated: 17/Apr/15 00:19
• Resolved: 18/Dec/14 20:16

Description

The serialization protocol for the thrift source is hard coded to be "compact". This change allows you to set it to "binary" via configuration.

This change is fully backwards compatible with current configuration that people would have, since it defaults to "compact".

Note:

• It doesn't go all the way to expose all different serialization options.
• I'm a n00b at this, so let me know if I'm missing something please