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Matthias J. Sax commented on KAFKA-12909:
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{quote}It makes sense but it is still kind of hard to wrap my head around it.
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Assume you have the following input (and a join window of 10):
left: <k,v1,100>
right: <k,v2,95> <k,v3,105>
result: <k,<v1,v2>,100> <k, <v1,v3>, 105>
The second result record is no a replacement of the first result record. The
result is really two records.
Doing the same with left-join (and eager emit) you get: result:
<k,<v1,null>,95>, <k,<v1,v2>,100> <k, <v1,v3>, 105> – for this case, the first
"left-join" is clearly incorrect, right? But how can you know that the second
record is an update to the first one, while the third record is _no_ update to
the second one?
> Allow users to opt-into spurious left/outer stream-stream join improvement
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>
> Key: KAFKA-12909
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-12909
> Project: Kafka
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: streams
> Reporter: Matthias J. Sax
> Assignee: Matthias J. Sax
> Priority: Blocker
> Fix For: 3.1.0
>
>
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-10847 improves left/outer
> stream-stream join, by not emitting left/outer results eagerly, but only
> after the grace period passed.
> While this change is desired, there is an issue with regard to upgrades: if
> users don't specify a grace period, we fall back to a 24h default. Thus,
> left/outer join results would only be emitted 24h after the join window end.
> This change in behavior could break existing applications when upgrading to
> 3.0.0 release. – And even if users do set a grace period explicitly, it's
> still unclear if the new delayed output behavior would work for them.
> Thus, we propose to disable the fix of KAFAK-10847 by default, and let user
> opt-into the fix explicitly instead.
> To allow users to enable the fix, we want to piggy-back on KIP-633
> (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-8613) that deprecated the
> existing `JoinWindows.of()` and `JoinWindows#grace()` methods in favor of
> `JoinWindows.ofSizeAndGrace()` – if users don't update their code, we would
> keep the fix disabled, and thus, if users upgrade their app nothing changes.
> Only if users switch to the new `ofSizeAndGrace()` API, we enable the fix and
> thus give users the opportunity to opt-in expliclity and pick an appropriate
> grace period for their application.
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