[FLUME-632] Support arguments in output format configuration

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.9.4
• Assignee: Jonathan Hsieh
• Reporter: Disabled imported user
• Created: 17/May/11 21:32
• Updated: 06/Aug/11 00:14
• Resolved: 02/Jun/11 20:13

Description

The Avro output formats support compression (since FLUME-250), but this is not supported in the configuration language. This issue is to add support for arguments in the configuration language so you can say, for example, avrodata(snappy).

Issue Links

• blocks: FLUME-651 Hook in support for output format arguments into relevant sinks.
• is blocked by: FLUME-299 Add support for subarguments in flume config elements
• is blocked by: FLUME-420 Change Context object to accept Objects.
• is blocked by: FLUME-635 Allow the compression codec to be specified in SequenceFiles
• is duplicated by: FLUME-511 Output format args can't be given via the configuration language