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Cody Koeninger commented on SPARK-9434:
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Dmitry, the nabble link you posted indicates your message was never accepted by
the mailing list.
Looking through my email archives, there are only 3 discussions related to
Kafka that you successfully sent to the mailing list, and all of them got
answers. As sean said, I think that's a better forum for questions.
To try and address what I think your question is... no, if you don't turn on
checkpointing, you won't have any offsets saved in a checkpoint. Checkpointing
isn't necessary for every job, so it is not turned on by default. The docs for
KafkaUtils already explicitly say "To recover from driver failures, you have to
enable checkpointing", with a link to the guide on how to do that.
The closed tickets you're linking to relate to a desire for some kind of
automated committing to, and/or recovery from, Zookeeper based offsets. As I
stated in those tickets, I think the correct way to make this easier for people
is just to expose an easier api for interacting with ZK. That already exists
in the code, it's just private.
> Need how-to for resuming direct Kafka streaming consumers where they had left
> off before getting terminated, OR actual support for that mode in the
> Streaming API
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>
> Key: SPARK-9434
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-9434
> Project: Spark
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Documentation, Examples, Streaming
> Affects Versions: 1.4.1
> Reporter: Dmitry Goldenberg
>
> We've been getting some mixed information regarding how to cause our direct
> streaming consumers to resume processing from where they left off in terms of
> the Kafka offsets.
> On the one hand side, we're hearing "If you are restarting the streaming app
> with Direct kafka from the checkpoint information (that is, restarting), then
> the last read offsets are automatically recovered, and the data will start
> processing from that offset. All the N records added in T will stay buffered
> in Kafka." (where T is the interval of time during which the consumer was
> down).
> On the other hand, there are tickets such as SPARK-6249 and SPARK-8833 which
> are marked as "won't fix" which seem to ask for the functionality we need,
> with comments like "I don't want to add more config options with confusing
> semantics around what is being used for the system of record for offsets, I'd
> rather make it easy for people to explicitly do what they need."
> The use-case is actually very clear and doesn't ask for confusing semantics.
> An API option to resume reading where you left off, in addition to the
> smallest or greatest auto.offset.reset should be *very* useful, probably for
> quite a few folks.
> We're asking for this as an enhancement request. SPARK-8833 states " I am
> waiting for getting enough usecase to float in before I take a final call."
> We're adding to that.
> In the meantime, can you clarify the confusion? Does direct streaming
> persist the progress information into "DStream checkpoints" or does it not?
> If it does, why is it that we're not seeing that happen? Our consumers start
> with auto.offset.reset=greatest and that causes them to read from the first
> offset of data that is written to Kafka *after* the consumer has been
> restarted, meaning we're missing data that had come in while the consumer was
> down.
> If the progress is stored in "DStream checkpoints", we want to know a) how to
> cause that to work for us and b) where the said checkpointing data is stored
> physically.
> Conversely, if this is not accurate, then is our only choice to manually
> persist the offsets into Zookeeper? If that is the case then a) we'd like a
> clear, more complete code sample to be published, since the one in the Kafka
> streaming guide is incomplete (it lacks the actual lines of code persisting
> the offsets) and b) we'd like to request that SPARK-8833 be revisited as a
> feature worth implementing in the API.
> Thanks.
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