Hi,

I've just realized that it seems like KafkaSink is missing a feature that
was present in FlinkKafkaProducer and which makes it hard to use with
savepoints [1].

Best, Piotrek

[1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-30068

pt., 11 lis 2022 o 13:53 Jing Ge <j...@ververica.com.invalid> napisaƂ(a):

> Hi all,
>
> Thank you all for the informative feedback. I figure there is a requirement
> to improve the documentation wrt the migration from FlinkKafkaConsumer to
> KafkaSource. I've fired a ticket[1] and connected it with [2]. This
> shouldn't be the blocker for removing FlinkKafkaConsumer.
>
> Given there will be some ongoing SinkV2 upgrades, I will start a vote only
> limited to FlinkKafkaConsumer elimination and related APIs graduation. As a
> follow-up task, I will sync with Yun Gao before the coding freeze of 1.17
> release to check if we can start the second vote to remove
> FlinkKafkaProducer with 1.17.
>
> Best regards,
> Jing
>
> [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-29999
> [2] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-28302
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 2, 2022 at 11:39 AM Martijn Visser <martijnvis...@apache.org>
> wrote:
>
> > Hi David,
> >
> > I believe that for the DataStream this is indeed documented [1] but it
> > might be missed given that there is a lot of documentation and you need
> to
> > know that your problem is related to idleness. For the Table API I think
> > this is never mentioned, so it should definitely be at least documented
> > there.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Martijn
> >
> > [1]
> >
> >
> https://nightlies.apache.org/flink/flink-docs-stable/docs/connectors/datastream/kafka/#idleness
> >
> > On Wed, Nov 2, 2022 at 11:28 AM David Anderson <dander...@apache.org>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > >
> > > > For the partition
> > > > idleness problem could you elaborate more about it? I assume both
> > > > FlinkKafkaConsumer and KafkaSource need a WatermarkStrategy to decide
> > > > whether to mark the partition as idle.
> > >
> > >
> > > As a matter of fact, no, that's not the case -- which is why I
> mentioned
> > > it.
> > >
> > > The FlinkKafkaConsumer automatically treats all initially empty (or
> > > non-existent) partitions as idle, while the KafkaSource only does this
> if
> > > the WatermarkStrategy specifies that idleness handling is desired by
> > > configuring withIdleness. This can be a source of confusion for folks
> > > upgrading to the new connector. It most often shows up in situations
> > where
> > > the number of Kafka partitions is less than the parallelism of the
> > > connector, which is a rather common occurrence in development and
> testing
> > > environments.
> > >
> > > I believe this change in behavior was made deliberately, so as to
> create
> > a
> > > more consistent experience across all FLIP-27 connectors. This isn't
> > > something that needs to be fixed, but does need to be communicated more
> > > clearly. Unfortunately, the whole idleness mechanism remained
> > significantly
> > > broken until 1.16 (considering the impact of [1] and [2]), further
> > > complicating the situation. Because of FLINK-28975 [2], users with
> > > partitions that are initially empty may have problems with versions
> > before
> > > 1.15.3 (still unreleased) and 1.16.0. See [3] for an example of this
> > > confusion.
> > >
> > > [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-18934 (idleness didn't
> > > work
> > > with connected streams)
> > > [2] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-28975 (idle streams
> > could
> > > never become active again)
> > > [3]
> > >
> > >
> >
> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/70096166/parallelism-in-flink-kafka-source-causes-nothing-to-execute/70101290#70101290
> > >
> > > Best,
> > > David
> > >
> > > On Wed, Nov 2, 2022 at 5:26 AM Qingsheng Ren <re...@apache.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Thanks Jing for starting the discussion.
> > > >
> > > > +1 for removing FlinkKafkaConsumer, as KafkaSource has evolved for
> many
> > > > release cycles and should be stable enough. I have some concerns
> about
> > > the
> > > > new Kafka sink based on sink v2, as sink v2 still has some ongoing
> work
> > > in
> > > > 1.17 (maybe Yun Gao could provide some inputs). Also we found some
> > issues
> > > > of KafkaSink related to the internal mechanism of sink v2, like
> > > > FLINK-29492.
> > > >
> > > > @David
> > > > About the ability of DeserializationSchema#isEndOfStream, FLIP-208 is
> > > > trying to complete this piece of the puzzle, and Hang Ruan (
> > > > ruanhang1...@gmail.com) plans to work on it in 1.17. For the
> partition
> > > > idleness problem could you elaborate more about it? I assume both
> > > > FlinkKafkaConsumer and KafkaSource need a WatermarkStrategy to decide
> > > > whether to mark the partition as idle.
> > > >
> > > > Best,
> > > > Qingsheng
> > > > Ververica (Alibaba)
> > > >
> > > > On Thu, Oct 27, 2022 at 8:06 PM Jing Ge <j...@ververica.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Hi Dev,
> > > > >
> > > > > I'd like to start a discussion about removing FlinkKafkaConsumer
> and
> > > > > FlinkKafkaProducer in 1.17.
> > > > >
> > > > > Back in the past, it was originally announced to remove it with
> Flink
> > > > 1.15
> > > > > after Flink 1.14 had been released[1]. And then postponed to the
> next
> > > > 1.15
> > > > > release which meant to remove it with Flink 1.16 but forgot to
> change
> > > the
> > > > > doc[2]. I have created a PRs to fix it. Since the 1.16 release
> branch
> > > has
> > > > > code freeze, it makes sense to, first of all, update the doc to say
> > > that
> > > > > FlinkKafkaConsumer will be removed with Flink 1.17 [3][4] and
> second
> > > > start
> > > > > the discussion about removing them with the current master branch
> > i.e.
> > > > for
> > > > > the coming 1.17 release. I'm all ears and looking forward to your
> > > > feedback.
> > > > > Thanks!
> > > > >
> > > > > Best regards,
> > > > > Jing
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > [1]
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
> https://nightlies.apache.org/flink/flink-docs-release-1.14/docs/connectors/datastream/kafka/#kafka-sourcefunction
> > > > > [2]
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
> https://nightlies.apache.org/flink/flink-docs-release-1.15/docs/connectors/datastream/kafka/#kafka-sourcefunction
> > > > > [3] https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/21172
> > > > > [4] https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/21171
> > > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
>

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