org.apache.flume.source.http
Interface HTTPSourceHandler

All Superinterfaces:

Configurable

All Known Implementing Classes:

JSONHandler

public interface HTTPSourceHandler
extends Configurable

Method Summary

List<Event>

getEvents(javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest request) Takes an HttpServletRequest and returns a list of Flume Events.

Methods inherited from interface org.apache.flume.conf.Configurable

configure

Method Detail

getEvents

List<Event> getEvents(javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest request)
                      throws HTTPBadRequestException,
                             Exception

Takes an HttpServletRequest and returns a list of Flume Events. If this request cannot be parsed into Flume events based on the format this method will throw an exception. This method may also throw an exception if there is some sort of other error.

Parameters:

request - The request to be parsed into Flume events.

Returns:

List of Flume events generated from the request.

Throws:

HTTPBadRequestException - If the was not parsed correctly into an event because the request was not in the expected format.

Exception - If there was an unexpected error.