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Sagar Rao reassigned KAFKA-13336:
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    Assignee:     (was: Sagar Rao)

> Migrate StreamsBuilder/Topology class to interfaces and move Topology 
> parameter from KafkaStreams constructor to #start
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>
>                 Key: KAFKA-13336
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-13336
>             Project: Kafka
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: streams
>            Reporter: A. Sophie Blee-Goldman
>            Priority: Major
>              Labels: needs-kip
>
> In order to refactor and improve the streams physical plan generation, we'll 
> need to clean up the DSL builder API a bit and in particular enforce the 
> configs be passed in from the beginning, rather than only when calling 
> #build. We can also use this opportunity to improve the disconnect between 
> the builder, the resulting Topology, and the Kafka Streams application that 
> ultimately runs this topology – at the moment these are all completely 
> uncoupled on the surface, so it's easy to think that a StreamsBuilder can be 
> reused to build multiple Topology objects, or that a Topology object could be 
> passed in to different KafkaStreams. However there is internal state that is 
> shared and modified during StreamsBuilder#build and in the KafkaStreams 
> constructor, and they are actually very coupled under the hood meaning there 
> must be a 1:1:1 ratio of builder to topology to KafkaStreams. So we need a 
> new API that
>  # Forces users to pass in the configs (Properties) when constructing the 
> builder
>  # Clarifies the relationship of the builder object to the topology, and to 
> the app itself
> I think a good API for this might look something like this:
>  # Move the StreamsBuilder class to an internal one (technically we would 
> need to keep it where it is for now until a full deprecation cycle)
>  # Introduce a TopologyBuilder interface to replace the functionality of the 
> current StreamsBuilder class, and have StreamsBuilder implement this. All the 
> current methods on StreamsBuilder will be moved to the TopologyBuilder 
> interfaces
>  # Move the Topology parameter out of the KafkaStreams constructor, and into 
> the KafkaStreams#start method, so you can construct a KafkaStreams object 
> before the Topology
>  # Add a factory method on KafkaStreams for users to get instances of the 
> TopologyBuilder, and have this accept a Properties. For example
> {code:java}
> class KafkaStreams {
>     public void newTopologyBuilder(final Properties props) {
>         // convert to StreamsConfig to validate configs & check for 
> application.id
>         final StreamsConfig config = new StreamsConfig(props); 
>         return new StreamsBuilder(config);
>     }
> }{code}
> This should satisfy both of the requirements, and imo provides a cleaner API 
> anyways. Getting the builder through a factory method on the KafkaStreams 
> object should make it clear that this builder is tied to that particular 
> KafkaStreams instance. And we can enforce that it isn't reused for a 
> different application by parsing the Properties passed in to 
> KafkaStreams#newTopologyBuilder, specifically the application.id. It also 
> leads to a more natural process of writing a Kafka Streams app: start with 
> the KafkaStreams object and global configs, then use this to build up the 
> processing topology. Looking forward, this will better complement the new 
> named topologies feature, with an API that treats topologies as entities 
> attached to a particular KafkaStreams but that may come and go



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