Hi Dawid, According to your suggestion, given that a I spawn a LocalEnvironment, I tried the following:
val root = new File("custom") val classLoader: URLClassLoader = new URLClassLoader(Array[URL](root.toURI.toURL), Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader) val cls = classLoader.loadClass("myFunction") val instance = cls.newInstance(); val udf = instance.asInstanceOf[ScalarFunction] val ignored = TemporaryClassLoaderContext.of(classLoader) try { fsTableEnv.createTemporaryFunction("myFunction", udf) fsTableEnv.executeSql("SELECT a, myFunction(a) FROM myTopic") } unfortunately this still results in a ClassNotFoundException when executing the environment. (The class is located outside of the classpath and is loaded succesfully, instances of it behave as expected) Did I possibly missunderstand what you were proposing? Kind regards, Jakub ________________________________ Von: Dawid Wysakowicz Gesendet: Donnerstag, 10. Dezember 2020 09:59 Bis: Guowei Ma; Jakub N Cc: user@flink.apache.org Betreff: Re: Flink UDF registration from jar at runtime Hi Jakub, As Guowei said the UDF must be present in the user classloader. It must be there when compiling the program and when executing on the cluster. As of now the TableEnvironment uses the Thread context classloader as the "user classloader" when compiling the query. Therefore you can do the trick via: ClassLoader yourClassloader = ... // create your classloader with the UDF try (TemporaryClassLoaderContext ignored = TemporaryClassLoaderContext.of(yourClassloader)) { fsTableEnv.createTemporaryFunction("myFunction", udf) fsTableEnv.executeSql("SELECT a, myFunction(a) FROM myTopic") } Take a look at the TemporaryClassLoaderContext[1] for a nice way how to do it with a cleanup at the end. To solve the second problem of having the UDF on the classpath when executing. If you are just spawning a LocalEnvironment the above should do the trick as it will use the context classloader. If you are submitting to a cluster, you can submit multiple jars as part of a single job either via the RemoteEnvironment or the flink run command. That's how we submit UDFs from separate jars in the sql-client. You can try to go through a few classes there and see how it is done. I am afraid it's not the easiest task as there are quite a few classes to navigate through. You could start from e.g. org.apache.flink.table.client.gateway.local.LocalExecutor#executeSql[2] [1] https://github.com/apache/flink/blob/master/flink-core/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/util/TemporaryClassLoaderContext.java [2] https://github.com/apache/flink/blob/0a6e457e6b2bff9acc25e45c3083fc12a95fd717/flink-table/flink-sql-client/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/table/client/gateway/local/LocalExecutor.java#L305 On 10/12/2020 09:15, Guowei Ma wrote: Hi, Jakub If I understand correctly you want the job, which you submitted, could load some table function which does not in the job jar. I don't think Flink could support this natively.(Maybe other guys know). But I think this requirement is like some code generated. You need to submit the "code" to the job. I think you could refer to the [1]. [1] https://github.com/apache/flink/blob/0a6e457e6b2bff9acc25e45c3083fc12a95fd717/flink-table/flink-table-runtime-blink/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/table/runtime/generated/GeneratedClass.java#L29 Best, Guowei On Tue, Dec 8, 2020 at 8:40 PM Jakub N <jakub1...@hotmail.de<mailto:jakub1...@hotmail.de>> wrote: Hi Guowei, 1. Unfortunately the UDF and the job are not in the same fatjar. Essentially there is only one "fatjar" containing the Flink environment + the job, the UDF is separate. 2. Yes, that is correct. 3. As explained in 1. I don't submit job jars to the Flink environment, instead the job is created and submitted within the "fatjar" Codewise nothing changed except for where the location of the UDF was specified. "Submitting to the environment" works as follows: 1. Create a StreamExecutionEnvironment -> StreamTableEnvironment 2. (Register UDF's) 3. Create tables 4. Query on the tables 5. Execute the environment The overall process is executed as one program. Apologies if any of these explanations are unclear or too vague. Kind regards, Jakub ________________________________ Von: Guowei Ma <guowei....@gmail.com<mailto:guowei....@gmail.com>> Gesendet: Dienstag, 8. Dezember 2020 06:34 An: Jakub N <jakub1...@hotmail.de<mailto:jakub1...@hotmail.de>> Cc: user@flink.apache.org<mailto:user@flink.apache.org> <user@flink.apache.org<mailto:user@flink.apache.org>> Betreff: Re: Flink UDF registration from jar at runtime Hi, Jakub I am not familiar with the `sbt pack`. But I assume you are doing following (correct me if I misunderstand you) 1. The UDF and Job jar are in the same "fatjar" 2. You "new" a UDF object in the job(). 3. You submit the "fatjar" to the local Flink environment. In theory there should not be any problem. Could share how you change the code and how you submit your job to the local environment. Best, Guowei On Tue, Dec 8, 2020 at 2:53 AM Jakub N <jakub1...@hotmail.de<mailto:jakub1...@hotmail.de>> wrote: Hi Guowei, It turned out for my application I unfortunately can't have the UDF in the "job's" classpath. As I am using a local Flink environment and `sbt pack` (similar to a fatjar) to create launch scripts therefore, to my understanding, I can't access the classpath (when the project is packed). Are there any ways to add these UDF's from outside the classpath? Kind regards, Jakub ________________________________ Von: Jakub N <jakub1...@hotmail.de<mailto:jakub1...@hotmail.de>> Gesendet: Montag, 7. Dezember 2020 12:59 An: Guowei Ma <guowei....@gmail.com<mailto:guowei....@gmail.com>> Cc: user@flink.apache.org<mailto:user@flink.apache.org> <user@flink.apache.org<mailto:user@flink.apache.org>> Betreff: Re: Flink UDF registration from jar at runtime Hi Guowei, Great thanks for your help. Your suggestion indeed solved the issue. I moved `myFunction` to the class path where execution starts. Kind regards, Jakub ________________________________ Von: Guowei Ma <guowei....@gmail.com<mailto:guowei....@gmail.com>> Gesendet: Montag, 7. Dezember 2020 12:16 An: Jakub N <jakub1...@hotmail.de<mailto:jakub1...@hotmail.de>> Cc: user@flink.apache.org<mailto:user@flink.apache.org> <user@flink.apache.org<mailto:user@flink.apache.org>> Betreff: Re: Flink UDF registration from jar at runtime Hi Jakub, I think the problem is that the `cls`, which you load at runtime, is not in the thread context classloader. Flink deserializes the `myFunction` object with the context classloader. So maybe you could put the myFunction in the job's class path. Best, Guowei On Mon, Dec 7, 2020 at 5:54 PM Jakub N <jakub1...@hotmail.de<mailto:jakub1...@hotmail.de>> wrote: Hi Guowei, Thanks for your help, here is the relevant code (QueryCommand class): val fsSettings: EnvironmentSettings = EnvironmentSettings .newInstance() .useBlinkPlanner() .inStreamingMode() .build() val fsEnv: StreamExecutionEnvironment = StreamExecutionEnvironment.getExecutionEnvironment fsEnv.setStreamTimeCharacteristic(TimeCharacteristic.EventTime) fsEnv.getConfig.enableObjectReuse() val fsTableEnv: StreamTableEnvironment = StreamTableEnvironment.create(fsEnv, fsSettings) val compiler: JavaCompiler = ToolProvider.getSystemJavaCompiler compiler.run(null, null, null, new File("target/custom/myFunction.java").getPath) val root = new File("target/custom") val classLoader: URLClassLoader = new URLClassLoader(Array[URL](root.toURI.toURL), this.getClass.getClassLoader) val cls = classLoader.loadClass("myFunction") val instance = cls.newInstance(); val udf = instance.asInstanceOf[ScalarFunction] fsTableEnv.createTemporaryFunction("myFunction", udf) //creating Table... fsTableEnv.executeSql("SELECT a, myFunction(a) FROM myTopic") def execute(): Unit = fsEnv.execute() myFunction.java import org.apache.flink.table.functions.ScalarFunction; public class myFunction extends ScalarFunction { public String eval(String s) { return "myFunction - " + s; } } Execution works as follows: A QueryCommand instance is created, some properties are being set, execute() will be invoked Let me know if any other relevant information is missing, alternatively you can also have a look at the source code here (https://github.com/codefeedr/kafkaquery). Kind regards, Jakub ________________________________ Von: Guowei Ma <guowei....@gmail.com<mailto:guowei....@gmail.com>> Gesendet: Montag, 7. Dezember 2020 02:55 An: Jakub N <jakub1...@hotmail.de<mailto:jakub1...@hotmail.de>> Cc: user@flink.apache.org<mailto:user@flink.apache.org> <user@flink.apache.org<mailto:user@flink.apache.org>> Betreff: Re: Flink UDF registration from jar at runtime Hi, Jakub In theory there should not be any problem because you could register the function object. So would you like to share your code and the shell command that you submit your job? Best, Guowei On Mon, Dec 7, 2020 at 3:19 AM Jakub N <jakub1...@hotmail.de<mailto:jakub1...@hotmail.de>> wrote: The current setup is: Data in Kafka -> Kafka Connector -> StreamTableEnvironment -> execute Flink SQL queries I would like to register Flink's User-defined Functions from a jar or java class file during runtime. What I have tried so far is using Java's Classloader getting an instance of a ScalarFunction (UDF) and registering it in the StreamTableEnvironment. When I try executing a query making use of the UDF I get the following exception: Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: myFunction at java.base/jdk.internal.loader.BuiltinClassLoader.loadClass(BuiltinClassLoader.java:581) at java.base/jdk.internal.loader.ClassLoaders$AppClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoaders.java:178) at java.base/java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:522) at java.base/java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method) at java.base/java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:398) at org.apache.flink.util.InstantiationUtil$ClassLoaderObjectInputStream.resolveClass(InstantiationUtil.java:78) at java.base/java.io.ObjectInputStream.readNonProxyDesc(ObjectInputStream.java:1943) at java.base/java.io.ObjectInputStream.readClassDesc(ObjectInputStream.java:1829) at java.base/java.io.ObjectInputStream.readOrdinaryObject(ObjectInputStream.java:2117) at java.base/java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject0(ObjectInputStream.java:1646) at java.base/java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject(ObjectInputStream.java:464) at java.base/java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject(ObjectInputStream.java:422) at org.apache.flink.util.InstantiationUtil.deserializeObject(InstantiationUtil.java:576) at org.apache.flink.util.InstantiationUtil.deserializeObject(InstantiationUtil.java:562) at org.apache.flink.util.InstantiationUtil.deserializeObject(InstantiationUtil.java:550) at org.apache.flink.table.planner.codegen.CodeGeneratorContext.addReusableObjectInternal(CodeGeneratorContext.scala:626) at org.apache.flink.table.planner.codegen.CodeGeneratorContext.addReusableFunction(CodeGeneratorContext.scala:648) at org.apache.flink.table.planner.codegen.calls.ScalarFunctionCallGen.generate(ScalarFunctionCallGen.scala:55) at org.apache.flink.table.planner.codegen.ExprCodeGenerator.generateCallExpression(ExprCodeGenerator.scala:784) at org.apache.flink.table.planner.codegen.ExprCodeGenerator.visitCall(ExprCodeGenerator.scala:493) at org.apache.flink.table.planner.codegen.ExprCodeGenerator.visitCall(ExprCodeGenerator.scala:53) at org.apache.calcite.rex.RexCall.accept(RexCall.java:288) at org.apache.flink.table.planner.codegen.ExprCodeGenerator.generateExpression(ExprCodeGenerator.scala:133) at org.apache.flink.table.planner.codegen.CalcCodeGenerator$.$anonfun$generateProcessCode$5(CalcCodeGenerator.scala:152) at scala.collection.TraversableLike.$anonfun$map$1(TraversableLike.scala:285) at scala.collection.mutable.ResizableArray.foreach(ResizableArray.scala:62) at scala.collection.mutable.ResizableArray.foreach$(ResizableArray.scala:55) at scala.collection.mutable.ArrayBuffer.foreach(ArrayBuffer.scala:49) at scala.collection.TraversableLike.map(TraversableLike.scala:285) at scala.collection.TraversableLike.map$(TraversableLike.scala:278) at scala.collection.AbstractTraversable.map(Traversable.scala:108) ... I have verified that the generated instance of the UDF behaves as expected when invoking any of its methods. Do you have any ideas on why this is failing?