Event serializers

An event serializer is the mechanism by which a Flume event is converted into another format for output. It is similar in function to the Layout class in log4j. By default, the text serializer, which outputs just the Flume event body. There is another, header_and_text, which outputs both the headers and the body. Finally, there is an avro_event serializer that can be used to create an Avro representation of the event. If you write your own, you'd use the implementation's fully qualified class name as the serializer property value.

Text output

As mentioned previously, the default serializer is the text serializer. This will output only the Flume event body, with the headers discarded. Each event has a new line character appender unless you override this default behavior by setting the serializer.appendNewLine property to false.

Key	Required	Type	Default
serializer	No	String	text
serializer.appendNewLine	No	boolean	true

Text with headers

The text_with_headers serializer...