Joe,

Thanks for the reply. Yes, all things considered, the explicit
negative DisallowRunOnce seems like the best option.

Regards,
David Handermann

On Fri, Mar 14, 2025 at 2:50 PM Joe Witt <joe.w...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> David,
>
> Going that @RunModes path - would we assume they support both run modes
> (once and scheduled) if the annotation is not present at all?  I also dont
> think 'Once' by itself would ever be valid, right <i guess that was your
> manual intervention statement>
>
> But yeah i'm not in love with the naming and generally I dont love the
> negative form.  But it seems explicit/simple and opt-in in nature which
> seems favorable here.
>
> Thanks
>
> On Fri, Mar 14, 2025 at 12:42 PM David Handermann <
> exceptionfact...@apache.org> wrote:
>
> > Joe,
> >
> > Thanks for initiating the discussion on this API improvement. The core
> > concept sounds very useful.
> >
> > Regarding naming, I agree that DisallowRunOnce or RunOnceDisabled is
> > the most explicit.
> >
> > The other alternative that comes to mind is an enumeration with the
> > option for multiple values. For example, something like @RunModes,
> > with default options set to ONCE and SCHEDULED. Disabling Run Once
> > support would be implemented by setting only the SCHEDULED value. It
> > may not make sense to support only the ONCE mode, as it would require
> > manual intervention.
> >
> > As other Boolean-based annotations already exist, such as
> > PrimaryNodeOnly and TriggerSerially, I'm not opposed to the more
> > focused DisallowRunOnce approach.
> >
> > Regards,
> > David Handermann
> >
> > On Fri, Mar 14, 2025 at 1:18 PM Mark Payne <marka...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Matt, PublishKafka could still run once. But I think ConsumeKafka would
> > not. The first time the processor is triggered, it requests data from the
> > client, which issues a request to the Kafka server. This is asynchronous
> > and hidden behind the poll() type of API, but it means that the first time
> > that you poll for records you will not receive any.
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > > -Mark
> > >
> > >
> > > > On Mar 14, 2025, at 2:08 PM, Matt Burgess <mattyb...@apache.org>
> > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > +1 from me, this would prevent the user from misunderstanding the
> > results
> > > > of running such processors once and having unmet expectations. One
> > thing I
> > > > would mention is to ensure there are NO use cases in which such
> > processors
> > > > won't be useful. The Merge processors are obvious as they need to run
> > more
> > > > than once in order to produce anything (and if the bins age off before
> > it's
> > > > run again the merge might not happen at all). Do the Kafka processors
> > need
> > > > to run more than once to produce results? For example I would think
> > > > PublishKafka should be able to publish a single message to a topic
> > when run
> > > > once?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks for raising the NIP, looking forward to the discussion!
> > > >
> > > > - Matt
> > > >
> > > > On Fri, Mar 14, 2025 at 1:35 PM Joe Witt <joew...@apache.org> wrote:
> > > >
> > > >> Team,
> > > >>
> > > >> Please see [1]
> > > >>
> > > >> In short - we need a way to prevent selection of 'run once' by users
> > for
> > > >> components that don't actually support it or work that way.
> > MergeContent
> > > >> is a great example but listing components and Kafka and likely many
> > others
> > > >> won't do anything useful with 'run once' invocations.
> > > >>
> > > >> I'll kick off a vote thread once discussion seems stable.
> > > >>
> > > >> Thanks
> > > >> Joe
> > > >>
> > > >> [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NIP-5
> > > >>
> > >
> >

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