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Yuan Mei commented on FLINK-15670:
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I have spent a couple of days hacking a prototype using existing Kafka Producer
and Consumer to get some hands-on experiences, code link here:
[https://github.com/apache/flink/compare/master...curcur:kafka_avoid_shuffle?expand=1]
The prototype works as follows:
# writes data to specific Kafka partitions based on the first field (key)
# read data through KafkaClient to make sure that each partition contains the
data as expected (this section is commented)
# consume data from Kafka partitions to make sure each sub-task reads data as
expected (keyed)
We can wrap item 1 to a Kafka sink, and item 3 to a Kafka source to hide
details how the partition work is done. We can wrap
`KeyGroupRangeAssignment.assignKeyToParallelOperator` in both the write and the
read side.
Two few more questions:
# I am using `FlinkKafkaPartitioner<>` to assign a key to a specific
partition, and hence am using KeyedSerializationSchema correspondingly.
However, I found all `FlinkKafkaProducer` constructors with
`FlinkKafkaPartitioner<>` are deprecated (at least for the universal version of
Kafka connector). Am I doing anything wrong here? Or better ways of doing so?
# How to avoid a `real` shuffle.
```
DataStream<T> fromKafka = env.addKafkaSource(new FlinkKafkaConsumer<>(...),
keyfields1);
fromKafka.keyby(keyfields1).sum(...)
```
In the above example, does the planner knows that `fromKafka` datastream is
ready to go and do not need a shuffle? If not, we do need some way to tell the
planner to avoid a shuffle?
> Provide a Kafka Source/Sink pair that aligns Kafka's Partitions and Flink's
> KeyGroups
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>
> Key: FLINK-15670
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-15670
> Project: Flink
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: API / DataStream, Connectors / Kafka
> Reporter: Stephan Ewen
> Priority: Major
> Labels: usability
> Fix For: 1.11.0
>
>
> This Source/Sink pair would serve two purposes:
> 1. You can read topics that are already partitioned by key and process them
> without partitioning them again (avoid shuffles)
> 2. You can use this to shuffle through Kafka, thereby decomposing the job
> into smaller jobs and independent pipelined regions that fail over
> independently.
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