[FLUME-261] Watchdog should use raw bytes instead of encoding/decoding character sets.

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Won't Fix
• Affects Version/s: 0.9.0, 0.9.1
• Fix Version/s: 0.9.5
• Component/s: Shell
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Jonathan Hsieh
• Created: 06/Oct/10 04:18
• Updated: 05/Nov/14 08:15
• Resolved: 05/Nov/14 08:15

Description

I sent some chinese characters (我是一個中國人) into the body of a flume event (via tail), and when running a node that dumps to console with the watchdog, the UTF-8 bytes get re-UTF-8'ed.

When running without the watchdog, we get exepected chinese characters.