Plugin failing with error

[yasin-amadmia-mck]

Could you please comment on this issue if you can spot anything ?

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/fluentd/Uk9Xp-vJK9o

[k24d]

It seems a compatibility issue. We need either one of the following patches:

--- a/fluent-plugin-splunkapi.gemspec
+++ b/fluent-plugin-splunkapi.gemspec
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ Gem::Specification.new do |gem|

   gem.rubyforge_project = "fluent-plugin-splunkapi"
   gem.add_development_dependency "fluentd"
-  gem.add_development_dependency "net-http-persistent"
+  gem.add_development_dependency "net-http-persistent", '< 3.0.0'
   gem.add_runtime_dependency "fluentd"
-  gem.add_runtime_dependency "net-http-persistent"
+  gem.add_runtime_dependency "net-http-persistent", '< 3.0.0'
 end

or

diff --git a/fluent-plugin-splunkapi.gemspec b/fluent-plugin-splunkapi.gemspec
index c446e0f..837e516 100644
--- a/fluent-plugin-splunkapi.gemspec
+++ b/fluent-plugin-splunkapi.gemspec
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ Gem::Specification.new do |gem|

   gem.rubyforge_project = "fluent-plugin-splunkapi"
   gem.add_development_dependency "fluentd"
-  gem.add_development_dependency "net-http-persistent"
+  gem.add_development_dependency "net-http-persistent", '~> 3.0'
   gem.add_runtime_dependency "fluentd"
-  gem.add_runtime_dependency "net-http-persistent"
+  gem.add_runtime_dependency "net-http-persistent", '~> 3.0'
 end
diff --git a/lib/fluent/plugin/out_splunkapi.rb b/lib/fluent/plugin/out_splunkapi.rb
index d3e6151..d1f09c2 100644
--- a/lib/fluent/plugin/out_splunkapi.rb
+++ b/lib/fluent/plugin/out_splunkapi.rb
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ class SplunkAPIOutput < BufferedOutput

   def start
     super
-    @http = Net::HTTP::Persistent.new 'fluentd-plugin-splunkapi'
+    @http = Net::HTTP::Persistent.new name: 'fluentd-plugin-splunkapi'
     @http.verify_mode = OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE unless @verify
     @http.headers['Content-Type'] = 'text/plain'
     $log.debug "initialized for splunkapi"