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Boyang Chen resolved KAFKA-4835.
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Resolution: Fixed
> Allow users control over repartitioning
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> Key: KAFKA-4835
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-4835
> Project: Kafka
> Issue Type: Sub-task
> Components: streams
> Affects Versions: 0.10.2.0
> Reporter: Michal Borowiecki
> Priority: Major
> Labels: needs-kip
>
> From
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-4601?focusedCommentId=15881030&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#comment-15881030
> ...it would be good to provide users more control over the repartitioning.
> My use case is as follows (unrelated bits omitted for brevity):
> {code}
> KTable<String, Activity> loggedInCustomers = builder
> .stream("customerLogins")
> .groupBy((key, activity) ->
> activity.getCustomerRef())
> .reduce((first,second) -> second, loginStore());
>
> builder
> .stream("balanceUpdates")
> .map((key, activity) -> new KeyValue<>(
> activity.getCustomerRef(),
> activity))
> .join(loggedInCustomers, (activity, session) -> ...
> .to("sessions");
> {code}
> Both "groupBy" and "map" in the underlying implementation set the
> repartitionRequired flag (since the key changes), and the aggregation/join
> that follows will create the repartitioned topic.
> However, in our case I know that both input streams are already partitioned
> by the customerRef value, which I'm mapping into the key (because it's
> required by the join operation).
> So there are 2 unnecessary intermediate topics created with their associated
> overhead, while the ultimate goal is simply to do a join on a value that we
> already use to partition the original streams anyway.
> (Note, we don't have the option to re-implement the original input streams to
> make customerRef the message key.)
> I think it would be better to allow the user to decide (from their knowledge
> of the incoming streams) whether a repartition is mandatory on aggregation
> and join operations (overloaded version of the methods with the
> repartitionRequired flag exposed maybe?)
> An alternative would be to allow users to perform a join on a value other
> than the key (a keyValueMapper parameter to join, like the one used for joins
> with global tables), but I expect that to be more involved and error-prone to
> use for people who don't understand the partitioning requirements well
> (whereas it's safe for global tables).
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