Hi Josh! The state code on 1.2-SNAPSHOT is undergoing pretty heavy changes right now, in order to add the elasticity feature (change parallelism or running jobs and still maintaining exactly once guarantees). At this point, no 1.0 savepoints can be restored in 1.2-SNAPSHOT. We will try and add compatibility towards 1.1 savepoints before the release of version 1.2.
I think the exception is probably caused by the fact that old savepoint stored some serialized user code (the new one is not expected to) which cannot be loaded. Adding Aljoscha and Stefan to this, to see if they can add anything. In any case, this should have a much better error message. I hope you understand that the 1.2-SNAPSHOT version is in some parts WIP, so not really recommended for general use. Does version 1.1 not work for you? Greetings, Stephan On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 7:44 PM, Josh <jof...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I have a Flink job which uses the RocksDBStateBackend, which has been > running on a Flink 1.0 cluster. > > The job is written in Scala, and I previously made some changes to the job > to ensure that state could be restored. For example, whenever I call `map` > or `flatMap` on a DataStream, I pass a named class: `.flatMap(new > MyCustomFlatMapper())` instead of an anonymous function. > > I've been testing the job on Flink 1.2-SNAPSHOT, and I am no longer able > to restore state. I'm seeing exceptions which look like this when trying to > restore from a savepoint: > > java.lang.RuntimeException: Could not initialize keyed state backend. > at org.apache.flink.streaming.api.operators.AbstractStreamOperator.open( > AbstractStreamOperator.java:148) > Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.joshfg.flink.job.MyJob$ > MyCustomFlatMapper$$anon$4$$anon$2 > at org.apache.flink.contrib.streaming.state.RocksDBKeyedStateBackend$ > RocksDBRestoreOperation.restoreKVStateMetaData( > RocksDBKeyedStateBackend.java:653) > > I'm not passing any anonymous functions to `map` or `flatMap` on Flink > DataStreams, so it looks like this exception is caused just from using > Scala functions like `filter`, `map`, `flatMap` on standard Scala > collections, within my class `MyCustomFlatMapper`. > > Are there any changes to the way Flink state is restored or to > RocksDBStateBackend, in the last 2-3 months, which could cause this to > happen? > > If so, any advice on fixing it? > > I'm hoping there's a better solution to this than rewriting the Flink job > in Java. > > Thanks, > > Josh >
