[FLUME-2347] Add FLUME_JAVA_OPTS which allows users to inject java properties from cmd line

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.5.0
• Assignee: Brock Noland
• Reporter: Brock Noland
• Created: 21/Mar/14 00:29
• Updated: 24/Mar/14 23:30
• Resolved: 24/Mar/14 19:58

Description

In order to set java properties such as -X, -D, and -javaagent we have teh following:

• flume-ng takes -X and -D as native properties
• JAVA_OPTS can be placed in the flume-env.sh file

However, there is no way to set properties on the command line which do not start with -X or -D.

eg.

env JAVA_OPTS="-javaagent...." flume-ng ....

Therefore I suggest we introduce FLUME_JAVA_OPTS which sets properties from the env starting the flume-ng command. This will not impact users who use JAVA_OPTs in the non-flume environment incompatibly with flume.