Twitter Firehose source connector

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The Twitter Firehose source connector receives tweets from Twitter Firehose and writes the tweets to Pulsar topics.

Configuration

The configuration of the Twitter Firehose source connector has the following properties.

Property

Name	Type	Required	Default	Description
consumerKey	String	true	" " (empty string)	The twitter OAuth consumer key. For more information, see Access tokens.
consumerSecret	String	true	" " (empty string)	The twitter OAuth consumer secret.
token	String	true	" " (empty string)	The twitter OAuth token.
tokenSecret	String	true	" " (empty string)	The twitter OAuth secret.
guestimateTweetTime	Boolean	false	false	Most firehose events have null createdAt time. If guestimateTweetTime set to true, the connector estimates the createdTime of each firehose event to be current time.
clientName	String	false	openconnector-twitter-source	The twitter firehose client name.
clientHosts	String	false	Constants.STREAM_HOST	The twitter firehose hosts to which client connects.
clientBufferSize	int	false	50000	The buffer size for buffering tweets fetched from twitter firehose.

For more information about OAuth credentials, see Twitter developers portal.