[METRON-1230] As a stopgap prior to METRON-777, add more simplistic sideloading of custom Parsers

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Done
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Done
• Fix Version/s: 0.5.0
• Assignee: Casey Stella
• Reporter: Casey Stella
• Created: 04/Oct/17 18:37
• Updated: 22/May/18 19:34
• Resolved: 02/Feb/18 21:47

Description

Until we get 777 in, it'd be nice to have a simple ability using the normal storm functionality to enable users to provide custom parsers without forking Metron. This should be done via simply creating a jar with their code (and bundled dependencies) and have it picked up and available to the REST Service (and consequently the management UI) as well as the start_parser_topology.sh command.

This should be minimal movement as we have a more robust solution coming with METRON-777.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #785