This matters on the consumer side, yes. Moving the instantiation out of the constructor will require such guarantee that the list fetched individually at subtasks are determinate and identical.
On the producer side I don’t really think it matters. Unless the user implementations of the provided KafkaPartitioner depends on the ordering of the passed partition id array to KafkaPartitioner.open(), though. From the interface Javadoc I’m not really sure if there was a contract / guarantee on that to the user in the first place. Otherwise, if we want to be really safe to not break any user code on the producer side, then we should also keep the ordering guarantee there too. On October 5, 2016 at 11:26:43 PM, Chesnay Schepler (ches...@apache.org) wrote: if you were to move the partition list fetching out of the constructor int open(), is there any guarantee that for each fetching subtask the partition list is identical? On 05.10.2016 17:17, Tzu-Li (Gordon) Tai wrote: > Hi Timo, > > I haven’t had the chance to look at the producer side too much yet, but after > a look in the code, > I think it’s reasonable to remove the instantiation from the producer > constructor. > The instantiation in the constructor is only used for partition list fetching > & eager properties validation > before running up the job. With an alternative to do the eager properties > validation in the constructor without relying on KafkaProducer, > it should be safe to remove it from the constructor. > > The consumer side actually has the same problem right now too. I was hoping > to bundle the fix with a bigger task, > but would probably consider moving it up TODO list so it can be resolved > sooner as a standalone fix. > > Cheers, > Gordon > > > On October 5, 2016 at 10:51:05 PM, Timo Walther (twal...@apache.org) wrote: > > Hey everyone, > > I'm currently rewriting the KafkaTabeSinkTest and discovered something > that doesn't seem to be intended: Is it intended that > FlinkKafkaProducer08 cannot be instantiated without a running Kafka > instance? > > The constructor of FlinkKafkaProducerBase calls getKafkaProducer() which > actually should be called in the open() method first. What happens if > the Client has no access to the Kafka properties (e.g. using an remote > execution environment)? Then it is impossible to create a KafkaProducer? > > Thanks. > > Timo >
