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layout: doc_page title: “Thrift”

Thrift

To use this extension, make sure to include druid-thrift-extensions.

This extension enables Druid to ingest thrift compact data online (ByteBuffer) and offline (SequenceFile of type <Writable, BytesWritable> or LzoThriftBlock File).

You may want to use another version of thrift, change the dependency in pom and compile yourself.

Thrift Parser

Field	Type	Description	Required
type	String	This should say thrift	yes
parseSpec	JSON Object	Specifies the timestamp and dimensions of the data. Should be a Json parseSpec.	yes
thriftJar	String	path of thrift jar, if not provided, it will try to find the thrift class in classpath. Thrift jar in batch ingestion should be uploaded to HDFS first and configure jobProperties with "tmpjars":"/path/to/your/thrift.jar"	no
thriftClass	String	classname of thrift	yes

• Realtime Ingestion (tranquility example)

{
  "dataSources": [{
    "spec": {
      "dataSchema": {
        "dataSource": "book",
        "granularitySpec": {          },
        "parser": {
          "type": "thrift",
          "thriftClass": "org.apache.druid.data.input.thrift.Book",
          "protocol": "compact",
          "parseSpec": {
            "format": "json",
            ...
          }
        },
        "metricsSpec": [...]
      },
      "tuningConfig": {...}
    },
    "properties": {...}
  }],
  "properties": {...}
}

To use it with tranquility,

bin/tranquility kafka \
  -configFile $jsonConfig \
  -Ddruid.extensions.directory=/path/to/extensions \
  -Ddruid.extensions.loadList='["druid-thrift-extensions"]'

Hadoop-client is also needed, you may copy all the hadoop-client dependency jars into directory druid-thrift-extensions to make is simple.

• Batch Ingestion - inputFormat and tmpjars should be set.

This is for batch ingestion using the HadoopDruidIndexer. The inputFormat of inputSpec in ioConfig could be one of "org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.lib.input.SequenceFileInputFormat" and com.twitter.elephantbird.mapreduce.input.LzoThriftBlockInputFormat. Be carefull, when LzoThriftBlockInputFormat is used, thrift class must be provided twice.

{
  "type": "index_hadoop",
  "spec": {
    "dataSchema": {
      "dataSource": "book",
      "parser": {
        "type": "thrift",
        "jarPath": "book.jar",
        "thriftClass": "org.apache.druid.data.input.thrift.Book",
        "protocol": "compact",
        "parseSpec": {
          "format": "json",
          ...
        }
      },
      "metricsSpec": [],
      "granularitySpec": {}
    },
    "ioConfig": {
      "type": "hadoop",
      "inputSpec": {
        "type": "static",
        "inputFormat": "org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.lib.input.SequenceFileInputFormat",
        // "inputFormat": "com.twitter.elephantbird.mapreduce.input.LzoThriftBlockInputFormat",
        "paths": "/user/to/some/book.seq"
      }
    },
    "tuningConfig": {
      "type": "hadoop",
      "jobProperties": {
        "tmpjars":"/user/h_user_profile/du00/druid/test/book.jar",
        // "elephantbird.class.for.MultiInputFormat" : "${YOUR_THRIFT_CLASS_NAME}"
      }
    }
  }
}