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From: Anand Padmanaban <apadmanaban@splunk.com>
To: "user@avro.apache.org" <user@avro.apache.org>
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 06:27:33 -0800
Subject: RE: writing to socket in python
Thread-Topic: writing to socket in python
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That wouldn't work for me.  The avroSource that flume will be listening on =
does not take http.

Thanks,
Anand.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: R. Tyler Croy [mailto:tyler@monkeypox.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2011 7:43 PM
> To: user@avro.apache.org
> Subject: Re: writing to socket in python
>=20
>=20
> On Wed, 26 Jan 2011, Anand Padmanaban wrote:
>=20
> > Writing avro to a file is easy in python, just use avro.datafile.DataFi=
leWriter.  Is there an equivalent to write over the wire?
> Specifically flume will be listening on the other end.
>=20
> IIRC DataFileWriter won't work over a socket because it needs .seek().
>=20
> You should look into Avro RPC support with Python, which uses HTTP as a
> transport, for writing messages over a wire.
>=20
> I've got some code on doing so with eventlet here:
>     <http://unethicalblogger.com/posts/2010/05/howto_using_avro_eventlet>
>=20
>=20
> - R. Tyler Croy
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