[FLUME-1551] Create a home for custom Flume components

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.3.0
• Fix Version/s: notrack
• Component/s: Build
• Labels: possibly_complete
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Will McQueen
• Created: 10/Sep/12 08:35
• Updated: 23/Nov/18 14:52
• Resolved: 11/Nov/18 19:08

Description

Create an 'ext' dir where all Flume NG custom components can live (eg, custom channels, sources, sinks, interceptors, serializers). Modify the flume-ng script to include this 'ext' dir in the classpath (probably include it right after the lib dir). Doing this will standardize the location of custom components.

An manual alternative is for a user to create the 'ext' dir and include that dir in the flume-env.sh file's FLUME_CLASSPATH value.