Hi Konstantin, Yes you are right that `cancel` falls under the "abrupt" termination of a job. I will update the FLIP accordingly.
Cheers, Kostas On Sun, Jul 7, 2019 at 11:38 AM Konstantin Knauf <konstan...@ververica.com> wrote: > Hi Klou, > > +1 for this proposal. I am missing any mention of "cancel" in the design > document though. In my understanding we are not planning to deprecate > "cancel" completely (just cancel-with-savepoint, which is superseded by > "stop"). In any case we should consider it in the design document. It seems > to me that "cancel" should be consider an ungraceful shutdown, so that the > Job could be restarted from last (retained) checkpoint (as right now). > > Cheers, > > Konstantin > > On Thu, Jul 4, 2019 at 3:21 PM Kostas Kloudas <kklou...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > In many cases, UDFs (User Defined Functions) need to be able to perform > > application-specific actions when they stop in an orderly manner. > > Currently, Flink's UDFs, and more specifically the RichFunction which > > exposes lifecycle-related hooks, only have a close() method which is > called > > in any case of job termination. This includes any form of orderly > > termination (STOP or End-Of-Stream) and termination due to an error. > > > > > > The FLIP in [1] and the design document in [2] propose the addition of an > > interface that will allow UDFs that implement it to perform application > > specific logic in the case of graceful termination. These cases include > > DRAIN and SUSPEND for streaming jobs (see FLIP-34), but also reaching the > > End-Of-Stream for jobs with finite sources. > > > > Let's have a lively discussion to solve this issue that has been around > for > > quite some time. > > > > Cheers, > > Kostas > > > > [1] > > > > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FLINK/FLIP-46%3A+Graceful+Shutdown+Handling+by+UDFs > > > > [2] > > > > > https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SXfhmeiJfWqi2ITYgCgAoSDUv5PNq1T8Zu01nR5Ebog/edit?usp=sharing > > > > > -- > > Konstantin Knauf | Solutions Architect > > +49 160 91394525 > > > Planned Absences: 10.08.2019 - 31.08.2019, 05.09. - 06.09.2010 > > > -- > > Ververica GmbH | Invalidenstrasse 115, 10115 Berlin, Germany > > -- > > Ververica GmbH > Registered at Amtsgericht Charlottenburg: HRB 158244 B > Managing Directors: Dr. Kostas Tzoumas, Dr. Stephan Ewen >