Hello, We are trying to update our kafka connector dependency. So far we have been using flink-connector-kafka-0.11 and we would like to update the dependency to flink-connector-kafka. However, when I try to restart the job with a savepoint I get the following exception:
java.lang.Exception: Exception while creating StreamOperatorStateContext. at org.apache.flink.streaming.api.operators.StreamTaskStateInitializerImpl.streamOperatorStateContext(StreamTaskStateInitializerImpl.java:195) at org.apache.flink.streaming.api.operators.AbstractStreamOperator.initializeState(AbstractStreamOperator.java:250) at org.apache.flink.streaming.runtime.tasks.StreamTask.initializeState(StreamTask.java:738) at org.apache.flink.streaming.runtime.tasks.StreamTask.invoke(StreamTask.java:289) at org.apache.flink.runtime.taskmanager.Task.run(Task.java:711) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748) Caused by: org.apache.flink.util.FlinkException: Could not restore operator state backend for StreamSink_351727121bb1ca0d704092960989d25b_(1/10) from any of the 1 provided restore options. at org.apache.flink.streaming.api.operators.BackendRestorerProcedure.createAndRestore(BackendRestorerProcedure.java:135) at org.apache.flink.streaming.api.operators.StreamTaskStateInitializerImpl.operatorStateBackend(StreamTaskStateInitializerImpl.java:255) at org.apache.flink.streaming.api.operators.StreamTaskStateInitializerImpl.streamOperatorStateContext(StreamTaskStateInitializerImpl.java:143) ... 5 more Caused by: org.apache.flink.runtime.state.BackendBuildingException: Failed when trying to restore operator state backend at org.apache.flink.runtime.state.DefaultOperatorStateBackendBuilder.build(DefaultOperatorStateBackendBuilder.java:86) at org.apache.flink.contrib.streaming.state.RocksDBStateBackend.createOperatorStateBackend(RocksDBStateBackend.java:537) at org.apache.flink.streaming.api.operators.StreamTaskStateInitializerImpl.lambda$operatorStateBackend$0(StreamTaskStateInitializerImpl.java:246) at org.apache.flink.streaming.api.operators.BackendRestorerProcedure.attemptCreateAndRestore(BackendRestorerProcedure.java:142) at org.apache.flink.streaming.api.operators.BackendRestorerProcedure.createAndRestore(BackendRestorerProcedure.java:121) ... 7 more Caused by: java.io.IOException: Could not find class 'org.apache.flink.streaming.connectors.kafka.FlinkKafkaProducer011$NextTransactionalIdHint' in classpath. at org.apache.flink.util.InstantiationUtil.resolveClassByName(InstantiationUtil.java:711) at org.apache.flink.util.InstantiationUtil.resolveClassByName(InstantiationUtil.java:681) at org.apache.flink.api.java.typeutils.runtime.PojoSerializerSnapshotData.readSnapshotData(PojoSerializerSnapshotData.java:178) at org.apache.flink.api.java.typeutils.runtime.PojoSerializerSnapshotData.createFrom(PojoSerializerSnapshotData.java:122) at org.apache.flink.api.java.typeutils.runtime.PojoSerializerSnapshot.readSnapshot(PojoSerializerSnapshot.java:125) at org.apache.flink.api.common.typeutils.TypeSerializerSnapshot.readVersionedSnapshot(TypeSerializerSnapshot.java:170) at org.apache.flink.api.common.typeutils.TypeSerializerSnapshotSerializationUtil$TypeSerializerSnapshotSerializationProxy.deserializeV2(TypeSerializerSnapshotSerializationUtil.java:179) at org.apache.flink.api.common.typeutils.TypeSerializerSnapshotSerializationUtil$TypeSerializerSnapshotSerializationProxy.read(TypeSerializerSnapshotSerializationUtil.java:150) at org.apache.flink.api.common.typeutils.TypeSerializerSnapshotSerializationUtil.readSerializerSnapshot(TypeSerializerSnapshotSerializationUtil.java:76) at org.apache.flink.runtime.state.metainfo.StateMetaInfoSnapshotReadersWriters$CurrentReaderImpl.readStateMetaInfoSnapshot(StateMetaInfoSnapshotReadersWriters.java:219) at org.apache.flink.runtime.state.OperatorBackendSerializationProxy.read(OperatorBackendSerializationProxy.java:119) at org.apache.flink.runtime.state.OperatorStateRestoreOperation.restore(OperatorStateRestoreOperation.java:83) at org.apache.flink.runtime.state.DefaultOperatorStateBackendBuilder.build(DefaultOperatorStateBackendBuilder.java:83) ... 11 more Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.flink.streaming.connectors.kafka.FlinkKafkaProducer011 $NextTransactionalIdHint at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:382) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:424) at org.apache.flink.runtime.execution.librarycache.FlinkUserCodeClassLoaders$ChildFirstClassLoader.loadClass(FlinkUserCodeClassLoaders.java:120) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:357) at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method) at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:348) at org.apache.flink.util.InstantiationUtil.resolveClassByName(InstantiationUtil.java:708) ... 23 more It seems like the state is saved including the classes. Is it possible to do a migration in some way where we can update the dependency and keep the state? Regards , Nikola Hrusov