Awesome. : )
Thanks, Robert for signing up to be the reviewer. I will create Jira and
share the link here.

Stay safe.

-
Sivaprasanna

On Thu, May 28, 2020 at 12:13 PM Robert Metzger <rmetz...@apache.org> wrote:

> Hi Sivaprasanna,
>
> thanks a lot for your proposal. Now that I ran into a HadoopUtils-related
> issue myself [1] I see the benefit in this proposal.
>
> I'm happy to be the Flink committer that mentors this change. If we do
> this, I would like to have a small scope for the initial change:
> - create a "flink-hadoop-utils" module
> - move generic, common utils into that module (for example
> SerializableHadoopConfiguration)
>
> I agree with Till that we should initially leave out the Hadoop
> compatibility modules.
>
> You can go ahead with filing a JIRA ticket! Let's discuss the exact scope
> there.
>
>
> [1] https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/12146
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 30, 2020 at 6:54 PM Sivaprasanna <sivaprasanna...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Bump.
> >
> > Please let me know, if someone is interested in reviewing this one. I am
> > willing to start working on this. BTW, a small and new addition to the
> > list: With FLINK-10114 merged, OrcBulkWriterFactory can also reuse
> > `SerializableHadoopConfiguration` along with SequenceFileWriterFactory
> and
> > CompressWriterFactory.
> >
> > CC - Kostas Kloudas since he has a better understanding on the
> > `SerializableHadoopConfiguration.`
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Sivaprasanna
> >
> > On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 3:17 PM Chesnay Schepler <ches...@apache.org>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > I would recommend to wait until a committer has signed up for reviewing
> > > your changes before preparing any PR.
> > > Otherwise the chances are high that you invest a lot of time but the
> > > changes never get in.
> > >
> > > On 30/03/2020 11:42, Sivaprasanna wrote:
> > > > Hello Till,
> > > >
> > > > I agree with having the scope limited and more concentrated. I can
> > file a
> > > > Jira and get started with the code changes, as and when someone has
> > some
> > > > bandwidth, the review can also be done. What do you think?
> > > >
> > > > Cheers,
> > > > Sivaprasanna
> > > >
> > > > On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 3:00 PM Till Rohrmann <trohrm...@apache.org>
> > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > >> Hi Sivaprasanna,
> > > >>
> > > >> thanks for starting this discussion. In general I like the idea to
> > > remove
> > > >> duplications and move common code to a shared module. As a
> > > recommendation,
> > > >> I would exclude the whole part about Flink's Hadoop compatibility
> > > modules
> > > >> because they are legacy code and hardly used anymore. This would
> also
> > > have
> > > >> the benefit of making the scope of the proposal a bit smaller.
> > > >>
> > > >> What we now need is a committer who wants to help with this effort.
> It
> > > >> might be that this takes a bit of time as many of the committers are
> > > quite
> > > >> busy.
> > > >>
> > > >> Cheers,
> > > >> Till
> > > >>
> > > >> On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 2:15 PM Sivaprasanna <
> > sivaprasanna...@gmail.com
> > > >
> > > >> wrote:
> > > >>
> > > >>> Hi,
> > > >>>
> > > >>> Continuing on an earlier discussion[1] regarding having a separate
> > > module
> > > >>> for Hadoop related utility components, I have gone through our
> > project
> > > >>> briefly and found the following components which I feel could be
> > moved
> > > >> to a
> > > >>> separate module for reusability, and better module structure.
> > > >>>
> > > >>> Module Name Class Name Used at / Remarks
> > > >>>
> > > >>> flink-hadoop-fs
> > > >>> flink.runtime.util.HadoopUtils
> > > >>> flink-runtime => HadoopModule & HadoopModuleFactory
> > > >>> flink-swift-fs-hadoop => SwiftFileSystemFactory
> > > >>> flink-yarn => Utils, YarnClusterDescriptor
> > > >>>
> > > >>> flink-hadoop-compatability
> > > >>> api.java.hadoop.mapred.utils.HadoopUtils
> > > >>> Both belong to the same module but with different packages
> > > >>> (api.java.hadoop.mapred and api.java.hadoop.mapreduce)
> > > >>> api.java.hadoop.mapreduce.utils.HadoopUtils
> > > >>> flink-sequeunce-file
> > > >>> formats.sequeuncefile.SerializableHadoopConfiguration Currently,
> > > >>> it is used at formats.sequencefile.SequenceFileWriterFactory but
> can
> > > also
> > > >>> be used at HadoopCompressionBulkWriter, a potential OrcBulkWriter
> and
> > > >>> pretty much everywhere to avoid NotSerializableException.
> > > >>>
> > > >>> *Proposal*
> > > >>> To summarise, I believe we can create a new module
> > (flink-hadoop-utils
> > > ?)
> > > >>> and move these reusable components to this new module which will
> have
> > > an
> > > >>> optional/provided dependency on flink-shaded-hadoop-2.
> > > >>>
> > > >>> *Structure*
> > > >>> In the present form, I think we will have two classes with the
> > > packaging
> > > >>> structure being *org.apache.flink.hadoop.[utils/serialization]*
> > > >>> 1. HadoopUtils with all static methods ( after combining and
> > > eliminating
> > > >>> the duplicate code fragments from the three HadoopUtils classes
> > > mentioned
> > > >>> above)
> > > >>> 2. Move the existing SerializableHadoopConfiguration from the
> > > >>> flink-sequence-file to this new module .
> > > >>>
> > > >>> *Justification*
> > > >>> * With this change, we would be stripping away the dependency on
> > > >>> flink-hadoop-fs from flink-runtime as I don't see any other classes
> > > from
> > > >>> flink-hadoop-fs is being used anywhere in flink-runtime module.
> > > >>> * We will have a common place where all the utilities related to
> > Hadoop
> > > >> can
> > > >>> go which can be reused easily without leading to jar hell.
> > > >>>
> > > >>> In addition to this, if you are aware of any other classes that fit
> > in
> > > >> this
> > > >>> approach, please share the details here.
> > > >>>
> > > >>> *Note*
> > > >>> I don't have a complete understanding here but I did see two
> > > >>> implementations of the following classes under two different
> packages
> > > >>> *.mapred and *.mapreduce.
> > > >>> * HadoopInputFormat
> > > >>> * HadoopInputFormatBase
> > > >>> * HadoopOutputFormat
> > > >>> * HadoopOutputFormatBase
> > > >>>
> > > >>> Can we somehow figure and have them in this new module?
> > > >>>
> > > >>> Thanks,
> > > >>> Sivaprasanna
> > > >>>
> > > >>> [1]
> > > >>>
> > > >>>
> > > >>
> > >
> >
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> > >
> > >
> >
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