[FLUME-2618] Provide Proxy Support for TwitterSource

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Patch Available
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 1.5.1
• Component/s: Sinks+Sources
• Release Note: Added support for proxy parameters by passing properties to the underlying twitter4j library.
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Erik Schmiegelow
• Created: 11/Feb/15 10:05
• Updated: 04/May/15 21:49

Description

TwitterSource lacks the ability to configure a proxy to access Twitter's API. As Twitter4j allows explicit proxy configuration, TwitterSource should pass on the properties through Context.

The properties exposed should be:

http.proxyHost HTTP proxy server host name null
http.proxyPort HTTP proxy server port null
http.proxyUser HTTP proxy server user name null
http.proxyPassword HTTP proxy server password null

as specified in http://twitter4j.org/en/configuration.html#HTTP connection

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