What is the runner supposed to be doing to trigger the teardown of given
bundle descriptors in an SDK harness?

Is there a fn API call I'm not interpreting correctly that should reliably
trigger DoFn teardown, or generally that bundle processing is done?



On Wed, May 15, 2019, 6:51 AM Robert Bradshaw <rober...@google.com> wrote:

> This does bring up an interesting question though. Are runners
> violating (the intent of) the spec if they simply abandon/kill workers
> rather than gracefully bringing them down (e.g. so that these
> callbacks can be invoked)?
>
> On Tue, May 7, 2019 at 3:55 PM Michael Luckey <adude3...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Thanks Kenn and Reuven. Based on your feedback, I amended to the PR [1]
> implementing the missing calls to teardown.
> >
> > Best,
> >
> > michel
> >
> > [1] https://github.com/apache/beam/pull/8495
> >
> > On Tue, May 7, 2019 at 6:09 AM Kenneth Knowles <k...@apache.org> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Mon, May 6, 2019 at 2:19 PM Reuven Lax <re...@google.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Mon, May 6, 2019 at 2:06 PM Kenneth Knowles <k...@apache.org>
> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> The specification of TearDown is that it is best effort, certainly.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Though I believe the intent of that specification was that a runner
> will call it as long as the process itself has not crashed.
> >>
> >>
> >> Yea, exactly. Or more abstractly that a runner will call it unless it
> is impossible. If the hardware fails, a meteor strikes, etc, then teardown
> will not be called. But in normal operation, particularly when the user
> code throws a recoverable exception, it should be called.
> >>
> >> Kenn
> >>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>
> >>>> If your runner supports it, then the test is good to make sure there
> is not a regression. If your runner has partial support, that is within
> spec. But the idea of the spec is more than you might have such a failure
> that it is impossible to call the method, not simply never trying to call
> it.
> >>>>
> >>>> I think it seems to match what we do elsewhere to leave the test, add
> an annotation, make a note in the capability matrix about the limitation on
> ParDo.
> >>>>
> >>>> Kenn
> >>>>
> >>>> On Mon, May 6, 2019 at 5:45 AM Michael Luckey <adude3...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Hi,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> after stumbling upon [1] and trying to implement a fix [2],
> ParDoLifeCycleTest are failing for
> >>>>> direct runner, spark validatesRunnerBatch and flink
> validatesRunnerBatch fail as DoFns teardown is not invoked, if DoFns setup
> throw an exceptions.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> This seems to be in line with the specification [3], as this
> explicitly states that 'teardown might not be called if unnecessary as
> processed will be killed anyway'.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> No I am a bit lost on how to resolve this situation. Currently, we
> seem to have following options
> >>>>> - remove the test, although it seems valuable in different (e.g.
> streaming?) cases
> >>>>> - to satisfy the test implement the call to teardown in runners
> although it seems unnecessary
> >>>>> - add another annotation @CallsTeardownAfterFailingSetup,
> @UsesFullParDoLifeCycle or such (would love to get suggestions for better
> name here)
> >>>>> - ?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Thoughts?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Best,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> michel
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BEAM-7197
> >>>>> [2] https://github.com/apache/beam/pull/8495
> >>>>> [3]
> https://github.com/apache/beam/blob/master/sdks/java/core/src/main/java/org/apache/beam/sdk/transforms/DoFn.java#L676-L680
>

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