Event Serializers
An Event Serializer is the mechanism by which a FlumeEvent 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, is used. There is another serializer, 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 newline ...
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