Hi Pierre,

You are right that this should not happen.
It seems like a bug.
Could you open a JIRA and post it here?

Thanks,
Kostas

> On Aug 21, 2018, at 9:35 PM, Pierre Zemb <pierre.zemb.i...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi!
> 
> I’ve started to deploy a small Flink cluster (4tm and 1jm for now on 1.6.0), 
> and deployed a small job on it. Because of the current load, job is 
> completely handled by a single tm. I’ve created a small proxy that is using 
> QueryableStateClient 
> <https://ci.apache.org/projects/flink/flink-docs-master/api/java/org/apache/flink/queryablestate/client/QueryableStateClient.html>
>  to access the current state. It is working nicely, except under certain 
> circumstances. It seems to me that I can only access the state through a node 
> that is holding a part of the job. Here’s an example:
> 
> job on tm1. Pointing QueryableStateClient to tm1. State accessible
> job still on tm1. Pointing QueryableStateClient to tm2 (for example). State 
> inaccessible
> killing tm1, job is now on tm2. State accessible
> job still on tm2. Pointing QueryableStateClient to tm3. State inaccessible
> adding some parallelism to spread job on tm1 and tm2. Pointing 
> QueryableStateClient to either tm1 and tm2 is working
> job still on tm1 and tm2. Pointing QueryableStateClient to tm3. State 
> inaccessible
> When the state is inaccessible, I can see this (generated here 
> <https://github.com/apache/flink/blob/release-1.6/flink-queryable-state/flink-queryable-state-runtime/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/queryablestate/client/proxy/KvStateClientProxyHandler.java#L228>):
> 
> java.lang.RuntimeException: Failed request 0.
>  Caused by: 
> org.apache.flink.queryablestate.exceptions.UnknownLocationException: Could 
> not retrieve location of state=repo-status of 
> job=3ac3bc00b2d5bc0752917186a288d40a. Potential reasons are: i) the state is 
> not ready, or ii) the job does not exist.
>     at 
> org.apache.flink.queryablestate.client.proxy.KvStateClientProxyHandler.getKvStateLookupInfo(KvStateClientProxyHandler.java:228)
>     at 
> org.apache.flink.queryablestate.client.proxy.KvStateClientProxyHandler.getState(KvStateClientProxyHandler.java:162)
>     at 
> org.apache.flink.queryablestate.client.proxy.KvStateClientProxyHandler.executeActionAsync(KvStateClientProxyHandler.java:129)
>     at 
> org.apache.flink.queryablestate.client.proxy.KvStateClientProxyHandler.handleRequest(KvStateClientProxyHandler.java:119)
>     at 
> org.apache.flink.queryablestate.client.proxy.KvStateClientProxyHandler.handleRequest(KvStateClientProxyHandler.java:63)
>     at 
> org.apache.flink.queryablestate.network.AbstractServerHandler$AsyncRequestTask.run(AbstractServerHandler.java:236)
>     at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:511)
>     at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266)
>     at 
> java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142)
>     at 
> java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617)
>     at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
> From the documentation, I can see that:
> 
> The client connects to a Client Proxy running on a given Task Manager. The 
> proxy is the entry point of the client to the Flink cluster. It forwards the 
> requests of the client to the Job Manager and the required Task Manager, and 
> forwards the final response back the client.
> 
> Did I miss something? Is the QueryableStateClientProxy only fetching info 
> from a job that is running on his local tm? If so, is there a way to retrieve 
> the job-graph? Or maybe another solution? 
> 
> Thanks!
> Pierre Zemb
> 
> -- 
> Cordialement,
> Pierre Zemb
> pierrezemb.fr <>
> Software Engineer, Metrics Data Platform @OVH

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