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Tzu-Li (Gordon) Tai commented on FLINK-6988: -------------------------------------------- We did have an offline discussion with [~rmetzger] for dropping 08 support. Having the need to maintain common features across all Kafka versions is certainly starting to feel a bit awkward for Kafka 08 compared to 09+, due to missing features in the old consumer / producer APIs. I think we perhaps need to do a poll on the mailing list to get a feel of how many of our users are still using Kafka 08. > Add Apache Kafka 0.11 connector > ------------------------------- > > Key: FLINK-6988 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-6988 > Project: Flink > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: Kafka Connector > Affects Versions: 1.3.1 > Reporter: Piotr Nowojski > Assignee: Piotr Nowojski > > Kafka 0.11 (it will be released very soon) add supports for transactions. > Thanks to that, Flink might be able to implement Kafka sink supporting > "exactly-once" semantic. API changes and whole transactions support is > described in > [KIP-98|https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP-98+-+Exactly+Once+Delivery+and+Transactional+Messaging]. > The goal is to mimic implementation of existing BucketingSink. New > FlinkKafkaProducer011 would > * upon creation begin transaction, store transaction identifiers into the > state and would write all incoming data to an output Kafka topic using that > transaction > * on `snapshotState` call, it would flush the data and write in state > information that current transaction is pending to be committed > * on `notifyCheckpointComplete` we would commit this pending transaction > * in case of crash between `snapshotState` and `notifyCheckpointComplete` we > either abort this pending transaction (if not every participant successfully > saved the snapshot) or restore and commit it. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.4.14#64029)