flume-TailSource分析

TailSource

首先看一下tail这种source的使用接口，下面是flume-0.9.4的文档，

tail("filename"[, startFromEnd=false]{,delim="regex", delimMode="exclude|prev|next"}) :: Similar to Unix’s tail utility. One line is one event. Generates events for the entire file then stays open for more data, and follows filename. (e.g. if tailing file "foo" and then "foo" is moved to "bar" and a new file appears named "foo", it will finish reading the new "bar" file and then start from the beginning of "foo"). If the startFromEnd parameter is false, tail will re-read from the beginning of the file. If it is true, it will only start reading from the current end of file. If the last line of a file does not end with a newline character (\n), the tail source will only send an event with this last line when the tail is closed. See the section on tailing a file for details on delim and delimMode.

我们可以看出它最多可以由四个参数，最少要设置一个。

下面是TailSource的源码分析，首先看一下TailSource这个类的结构，它继承自EventSource.Base