[FLUME-981] Unify sink failure behavior, throwing EventDeliveryException

• Type: Bug
• Status: Patch Available
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 1.1.0, 1.4.0
• Component/s: Sinks+Sources
• Assignee: Ashish Paliwal
• Reporter: Juhani Connolly
• Created: 21/Feb/12 07:09
• Updated: 23/Dec/13 17:13

Description

With FLUME-865 committed, for failover SinkProcessor and other future processors to work properly, it is expected that they throw EventDeliveryException once they are no longer able to deliver events.

Of course, the semantics can be changed to a different condition for failover, but some kind of unifiedd behavior is necessary.
Perhaps per-sink sub-issues should be made by people interested in fixing individual sinks.

Right now the following sinks never throw EventDeliveryException:

AvroSink
IRCSink

Other sinks all throw it under failure scenarios.

Issue Links

• links to: Review Request