1310689 - Define/Document the sandbox streaming decoder API

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Cloud Services Graveyard :: Metrics: Pipeline, defect, P1)

Comment 1

[Mike Trinkala [:trink]]

Currently the only use case for a stream decoder is to wrap a framed Heka decoder (since it combines splitting and parsing to reduce memory thrash).  For generalize data the splitting should happen in the input and a standard decoder is all you need.  It has been decided not to commit to a new API to deal with this special case and instead we will just stick with the dedicated heka_* inputs and the GC reduction advantages they give us.