Github user rmetzger commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/2131#discussion_r68582306
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flink-streaming-connectors/flink-connector-kinesis/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/streaming/connectors/kinesis/internals/ShardDiscoverer.java
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+package org.apache.flink.streaming.connectors.kinesis.internals;
+
+import
org.apache.flink.streaming.connectors.kinesis.model.KinesisStreamShard;
+import
org.apache.flink.streaming.connectors.kinesis.model.KinesisStreamShardState;
+import
org.apache.flink.streaming.connectors.kinesis.model.SentinelSequenceNumber;
+import
org.apache.flink.streaming.connectors.kinesis.proxy.GetShardListResult;
+import
org.apache.flink.streaming.connectors.kinesis.proxy.KinesisProxyInterface;
+import org.apache.flink.streaming.connectors.kinesis.proxy.KinesisProxy;
+import
org.apache.flink.streaming.connectors.kinesis.util.KinesisConfigUtil;
+import org.slf4j.Logger;
+import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
+
+import java.util.HashMap;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Map;
+import java.util.Set;
+
+import static org.apache.flink.util.Preconditions.checkNotNull;
+
+/**
+ * This runnable is in charge of discovering new shards that a fetcher
should subscribe to.
+ * It is submitted to {@link
KinesisDataFetcher#shardDiscovererAndSubscriberExecutor} and continuously runs
until the
+ * fetcher is closed. Whenever it discovers a new shard that should be
subscribed to, the shard is added to the
+ * {@link KinesisDataFetcher#pendingShards} queue with initial state, i.e.
where in the new shard we should start
+ * consuming from.
+ */
+public class ShardDiscoverer<T> implements Runnable {
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Okay. I'm still not done with the review, so my statement might not make
much sense:
We could also trigger a special shard discovery when a reading thread hits
a deleted / unavailable shard. This way, we can reduce the delay for our users.
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