The job name is a user chosen value[1]. If you don't specify something, a job name is generated for you automatically[2].
1: https://github.com/apache/beam/blob/c1927cd339c57125e29a651e614fb5105abf6d33/sdks/go/pkg/beam/options/jobopts/options.go#L38 2: https://github.com/apache/beam/blob/c1927cd339c57125e29a651e614fb5105abf6d33/sdks/go/pkg/beam/options/jobopts/options.go#L71 On Fri, Jun 22, 2018 at 3:28 PM eduardo.mora...@gmail.com < eduardo.mora...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On 2018/06/22 21:35:29, Lukasz Cwik <lc...@google.com> wrote: > > There can only be one pipeline in Dataflow with the same job name so if > you > > attempt to submit another job with the same job name you'll get back an > > identifier for the currently executing pipeline. > > But beam.Run() only returns an error. How do I get the job name back? > My guess is that I have to use a different API ( > https://godoc.org/google.golang.org/api/dataflow/v1b3). Is that the > correct way to detect job name collisions? > > Thanks again. > > > On Fri, Jun 22, 2018 at 2:27 PM eduardo.mora...@gmail.com < > > eduardo.mora...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > If I have a k8s process launching dataflow pipelines, what happens when > > > the process is restarted? Can Apache Beam detect a running pipeline and > > > join accordingly? or will the pipeline be duplicated? > > > > > > Thanks in advance. > > > > > >