The purpose of a sink is to take events from a channel and pass it on to a further destination. That destination can be anything, including your another program listening on rpc.
On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 1:26 PM, terreyshih <terreys...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > It seems to me that the intention of the flume is to be used for > intermediate aggregation/processing of data which is to be dropped in some > type of data storage. > > However, what is preventing us from implementing a customized sink that > talks to a remote program vic RPC (such as avro RPC) > > Has anybody done this ? > > thanks, > -terrey
