Hi Shapira,

We only expose the OffsetStorageReader to connector which relies on
KafkaOffsetBackingStore. The store continuesly consumes offsets from kafka
so I think we can't have stale data.


Le 8 sept. 2017 06:13, "Randall Hauch" <rha...@gmail.com> a écrit :

> The KIP and PR expose the OffsetStorageReader, which is already exposed to
> the tasks. The OffsetStorageWriter is part of the implementation, but was
> not and is not exposed thru the API.
>
> > On Sep 7, 2017, at 9:04 PM, Gwen Shapira <g...@confluent.io> wrote:
> >
> > I just re-read the code for the OffsetStorageWriter, and ran into this
> > comment:
> >
> > * Note that this only provides write functionality. This is
> > intentional to ensure stale data is
> > * never read. Offset data should only be read during startup or
> > reconfiguration of a task. By
> > * always serving those requests by reading the values from the backing
> > store, we ensure we never
> > * accidentally use stale data. (One example of how this can occur: a
> > task is processing input
> > * partition A, writing offsets; reconfiguration causes partition A to
> > be reassigned elsewhere;
> > * reconfiguration causes partition A to be reassigned to this node,
> > but now the offset data is out
> > * of date). Since these offsets are created and managed by the
> > connector itself, there's no way
> > * for the offset management layer to know which keys are "owned" by
> > which tasks at any given
> > * time.
> >
> >
> > I can't figure out how the KIP avoids the stale-reads problem explained
> here.
> >
> > Can you talk me through it? I'm cancelling my vote since right now
> > exposing this interface sounds risky and misleading.
> >
> >
> > Gwen
> >
> >
> >> On Thu, Sep 7, 2017 at 5:04 PM Gwen Shapira <g...@confluent.io> wrote:
> >>
> >> +1 (binding)
> >>
> >> Looking forward to see how connector implementations use this in
> practice
> >> :)
> >>
> >>> On Thu, Sep 7, 2017 at 3:49 PM Randall Hauch <rha...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> I'd like to open the vote for KIP-131:
> >>>
> >>> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP-131+-+
> Add+access+to+OffsetStorageReader+from+SourceConnector
> >>>
> >>> Thanks to Florian for submitting the KIP and the implementation, and to
> >>> everyone else that helped review.
> >>>
> >>> Best regards,
> >>>
> >>> Randall
> >>>
> >>
>

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