Friendly remainder. Any thoughts on this approach ?

On Tue, Apr 9, 2019 at 11:36 AM Kailash Dayanand <kdayan...@lyft.com> wrote:

> cc'ing few folks who are interested in this discussion.
>
> On Tue, Apr 9, 2019 at 11:35 AM Kailash Dayanand <kdayan...@lyft.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am looking to contribute a ProtoParquetWriter support which can be used
>> in Bulk format for the StreamingFileSink api. There has been earlier
>> discussions on this in the user mailing list: https://goo.gl/ya2StL and
>> thought it would be a good addition to have.
>>
>> For implementation, looking at the current APIs present at
>> ProtoParquetWriter with the parguet project (http://tinyurl.com/y378be42),
>> it looks like there is some different in the interface between Avro and
>> Proto writes (ProtoParquetWriter does not have a builder class as well as
>> not interface with Outputfile). Due to this, I was looking at directly
>> extending the ParquetWriter within Flink to define the Builder static class
>> and have newer interfaces. This is needed as the bulk writer takes a
>> builder to crate the ParquetWriter in the bulkWriter.Factory. (
>> http://tinyurl.com/yyg9cn9b)
>>
>> Any thoughts if this is a reasonable approach?
>>
>> Thanks
>> Kailash
>>
>

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