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ASF GitHub Bot commented on FLINK-4523: --------------------------------------- Github user tsriharsha commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/2916#discussion_r108598516 --- Diff: flink-connectors/flink-connector-kinesis/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/streaming/connectors/kinesis/util/KinesisConfigUtil.java --- @@ -215,4 +229,18 @@ private static void validateOptionalPositiveDoubleProperty(Properties config, St } } } + + private static void validateOptionalDateProperty(Properties config, String key, String message) { + if (config.containsKey(key)) { + try { + initTimestampDateFormat.parse(config.getProperty(key)); --- End diff -- Hey this throws an error if a double is passed but the next line throws an exception when a timestamp string is passed. @tzulitai @tony810430 > Allow Kinesis Consumer to start from specific timestamp / Date > -------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: FLINK-4523 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-4523 > Project: Flink > Issue Type: New Feature > Components: Kinesis Connector > Reporter: Tzu-Li (Gordon) Tai > Assignee: Wei-Che Wei > Fix For: 1.3.0 > > > We had a Kinesis user requesting this feature on an offline chat. > To be specific, we let all initial Kinesis shards be iterated starting from > records at the given timestamp. > The AWS Java SDK we're using already provides API for this, so we can add > this functionality with fairly low overhead: > http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSJavaSDK/latest/javadoc/com/amazonaws/services/kinesis/model/GetShardIteratorRequest.html#setTimestamp-java.util.Date- -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.15#6346)