thanks. Sharninder
On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 1:26 AM, Sharninder <sharnin...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > > >