[FLUME-542] S3 sink cannot be used if your AWS keys needs escaping

• Type: Bug
• Status: Open
• Priority: Blocker
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 0.9.3
• Component/s: Node
• Labels: possibly_obsolete

Environment

Amazon EC2 Ubuntu 10.04 LTS

• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Disabled imported user
• Created: 28/Feb/11 23:48
• Updated: 04/Apr/20 04:45

Description

If you key or secret contains "/" characters, you are instructed to escape them (see http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/AmazonS3).

For example:

 
19823791823/1232323/nm3nm

...should be changed to:

 
19823791823%2F1232323%2Fnm3nm

When using that in your sink configuration:

 
collectorSink( "s3n://key:19823791823%2F1232323%2Fnm3nm@str-flume-ec2production/%Y-%m-%d/%H00/", "nginx-" )

...the Flume collector outputs this:

 
2011-02-28 23:06:20,009 WARN com.cloudera.flume.core.Event: Unrecognized escape in event format string: %2

So then we tried double-escaping it:

 
19823791823%%2F1232323%%2Fnm3nm

...which passed the Flume escape check but now fails S3 auth.

Rob

Issue Links

• is related to: FLUME-66 Add S3 Sink to Flume