[FLUME-3394] A Kafka Channel defined as parseAsFlumeEvent=false cannot be correctly used by a Flume sink

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.9.0
• Fix Version/s: 1.9.0
• Release Note: My configuration was wrong, so sorry for that
• Flags: Important
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Haibo Wu
• Created: 19/Nov/21 14:25
• Updated: 21/Nov/21 06:53
• Resolved: 21/Nov/21 06:53

Description

When a kafka channel is configured as parseAsFlumeEvent=false, it still parse the events as Avro so that the data will fail to be read correctly from kafka.

The raw data like below.

The flume config see below.

And the data from Kafka topic see below.