[FLUME-2917] Provide netcat UDP source as alternative to TCP

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.6.0
• Fix Version/s: 1.8.0
• Component/s: Sinks+Sources
• Assignee: Tristan Stevens
• Reporter: Tristan Stevens
• Created: 31/May/16 15:31
• Updated: 02/Jul/17 21:49
• Resolved: 02/Jul/17 21:48

Description

Currently Flume provides a Netcat TCP source, however Netcat is often used with UDP. There is an implementation of a UDP client in the SyslogUDP source, this request takes this implementation and strips out the Syslog parts, thus forming a Netcat UDP source - where each datagram is recorded as a Flume event.

The implementation is provided for this at https://github.com/tmgstevens/FlumeNetcatUDPSource and also provided as an attached patch for inclusion.

N.B. Unit tests are provided for this.

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