Cool! Thanks Kenn.

Jacob

On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 9:57 AM, Kenneth Knowles <[email protected]> wrote:

> I wanted to follow up that this has been reproduced and diagnosed, and a
> fix is underway. The ticket to follow is https://issues.apache.org/
> jira/browse/BEAM-3219.
>
> Kenn
>
> On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 12:23 PM, Jacob Marble <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Here is a small pipeline job that fails using the Dataflow runner, but
>> doesn't fail using the direct runner.
>>
>> https://gist.github.com/jacobmarble/804c2edb9c80a2863f3e671d6851a55f
>>
>> Jacob
>>
>> On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 9:27 AM, Kenneth Knowles <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> It is definitely a big deal if @Setup is not getting called! There are
>>> no special cases that would skip @Setup. Please do report what you can.
>>>
>>> That said, lazily doing setup (via null check or some such as you
>>> mention) is perfectly fine and often a more robust programming pattern.
>>> Upside: you can't accidentally use uninitialized things. Downside: it might
>>> mask repeated initialization and only manifest as poor performance.
>>>
>>> Kenn
>>>
>>> On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 9:00 AM, Jacob Marble <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I tried to write a simpler DoFn that induces the error, but it works
>>>> fine. Working around the issue today by using @StartBundle with a null
>>>> check, and that seems to be working.
>>>>
>>>> If this really is a big deal, then it needs to be reported, so I'll try
>>>> to find time to write a broken example.
>>>>
>>>> Jacob
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 10:27 PM, Eugene Kirpichov <
>>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Could you give more details, e.g. a code snippet that reproduces the
>>>>> issue, and describe how you determine that @Setup hasn't been called?
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 6:58 PM Derek Hao Hu <[email protected]>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> ​I've been using DoFn.Setup method in Dataflow and it seems to be
>>>>>> working fine.​
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 4:56 PM, Jacob Marble <[email protected]>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> This one is weird.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> A DoFn I wrote:
>>>>>>> - stateful
>>>>>>> - used plenty in a streaming pipeline
>>>>>>> - direct and dataflow runners
>>>>>>> - works fine
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Now:
>>>>>>> - new batch pipeline
>>>>>>> - @DoFn.Setup method not called
>>>>>>> - direct runner works properly (logs from setup method are output)
>>>>>>> - dataflow runner simply doesn't call the setup method
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Is this possibly a Beam misuse? Javadoc for DoFn.Setup doesn't hint
>>>>>>> at anything, so I'm suspecting Dataflow bug?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Jacob
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> Derek Hao Hu
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Software Engineer | Snapchat
>>>>>> Snap Inc.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
>

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