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Moritz Mack commented on BEAM-13203:
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[~kenn] [~echauchot] [~aromanenko]
Based on my potentially flawed assessment SnsIO.{*}writeAsync{*} is
conceptually so broken that it will require significant work to get it into a
reliable state. I can hardly imagine anyone runs this successfully in
production.
SnsIO.{*}write{*} on the other hand is just fine, so I'm not sure what the
right thing to do is. Most of all I wanted to raise a red flag regarding
*writeAsynch.*
In terms of priorities it seems almost more important to work towards getting
feature parity between SDK v1 and v2 so v1 can finally be deprecated (and
eventually be dropped).
> Potential data loss when using SnsIO.writeAsync
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>
> Key: BEAM-13203
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BEAM-13203
> Project: Beam
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: io-java-aws
> Reporter: Moritz Mack
> Priority: P0
>
> This needs to be investigated, reading the code suggests we might be losing
> data under certain conditions e.g. when terminating the pipeline. The async
> processing model here is far too simplistic.
> The bundle won't ever know about pending writes and won't block to wait for
> any such operation. The same way exceptions are thrown into nowhere. Test
> cases don't capture this as they operate on completed futures only (so
> exceptions in the callbacks get thrown on the thread of processElement).
> {code:java}
> client.publish(publishRequest).whenComplete((response, ex) -> {
> if (ex == null) {
> SnsResponse<T> snsResponse = SnsResponse.of(context.element(), response);
> context.output(snsResponse);
> } else {
> LOG.error("Error while publishing request to SNS", ex);
> throw new SnsWriteException("Error while publishing request to SNS", ex);
> }
> }); {code}
> Also, this entirely removes backpressure from a stream. When used with a much
> faster source we will continue to accumulate more and more memory as the
> number of concurrent pending async operations is not limited.
> Spotify's scio contains a
> [JavaAsyncDoFn|https://github.com/spotify/scio/blob/main/scio-core/src/main/java/com/spotify/scio/transforms/JavaAsyncDoFn.java]
> that illustrates how it can be done.
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