You're right. I'm still looking into this, unfortunately I haven't made
progress so far. I'll keep you posted.

On Sun, 29 May 2016 at 18:20 Pawel Szczur <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I used the config as in the repo.
> Please grep the the log for "hereGoesLongStringID0,2", you will see that
> this key is processed multiple times.
>
> This is how I understand CoGroupByKey: one has two (or more)
> PCollection<KV<K,?>>. Both sets are grouped by key. For each unique key a
> KV<K, CoGbkResult> is produced, a given CoGbkResult contains all values
> from all input PCollections which have the given key.
>
> But from the log it seems that each key produced more than one CoGbkResult.
>
> The final counters didn't catch the bug because in your case, the value
> from dataset1 was replicated for each key.
>
> Cheers, Pawel
>
> 2016-05-29 15:59 GMT+02:00 Aljoscha Krettek <[email protected]>:
>
>> Hi,
>> I ran your data generator with these configs:
>> p.apply(Create.of(new Config(3, 5, 600_000, 1)))
>>     .apply(ParDo.of(new Generator())).apply(
>>         AvroIO.Write.to
>> ("/tmp/dataset1").withSchema(DumbData.class).withNumShards(6));
>>
>> p.apply(Create.of(new Config(3, 5, 600_000, 2))).
>>     apply(ParDo.of(new Generator())).apply(
>>         AvroIO.Write.to
>> ("/tmp/dataset2").withSchema(DumbData.class).withNumShards(6));
>>
>> Then I ran the job with parallelism=6. I couldn't reproduce the problem,
>> this is the log file from one of several runs:
>> https://gist.github.com/aljoscha/ef1d804f57671cd472c75b92b4aee51b
>>
>> Could you please send me the exact config that you used. Btw, I ran it
>> inside an IDE, do the problems also occur in the IDE for you or only when
>> you execute on a cluster?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Aljoscha
>>
>> On Sun, 29 May 2016 at 01:51 Pawel Szczur <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Aljoscha.
>>>
>>> I've created a repo with fake dataset to allow easily reproduce the
>>> problem:
>>> https://github.com/orian/cogroup-wrong-grouping
>>>
>>> What I noticed: if the dataset is too small the bug doesn't appear.
>>>
>>> You can modify the size of dataset, but in ideal case it should be few
>>> hundred thousands records per key (I guess it depends on the machine you
>>> run it).
>>>
>>> Cheers, Pawel
>>>
>>> 2016-05-28 12:45 GMT+02:00 Aljoscha Krettek <[email protected]>:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>> which version of Beam/Flink are you using.
>>>>
>>>> Could you maybe also provide example data and code that showcases the
>>>> problem? If you have concerns about sending it to a public list you can
>>>> also send it to me directly.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Aljoscha
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, 27 May 2016 at 20:53 Pawel Szczur <[email protected]>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> *Data description.*
>>>>>
>>>>> I have two datasets.
>>>>>
>>>>> Records - the first, containes around 0.5-1M of records per (key,day).
>>>>> For testing I use 2-3 keys and 5-10 days of data. What I shoot for is 
>>>>> 1000+
>>>>> keys. Each record contains key, timestamp in μ-seconds and some other 
>>>>> data.
>>>>> Configs - the second, is rather small. It describes the key in time,
>>>>> e.g. you can think about it as a list of tuples: (key, start date, end
>>>>> date, description).
>>>>>
>>>>> For the exploration I've encoded the data as files of length-prefixed
>>>>> Protocol Buffer binary encoded messages. Additionally the files are packed
>>>>> with gzip. Data is sharded by date. Each file is around 10MB.
>>>>>
>>>>> *Pipeline*
>>>>>
>>>>> First I add keys to both datasets. For Records dataset it's (key, day
>>>>> rounded timestamp). For Configs a key is (key, day), where day is each
>>>>> timestamp value between start date and end date (pointing midnight).
>>>>> The datasets are merged using CoGroupByKey.
>>>>>
>>>>> As a key type I use import org.apache.flink.api.java.tuple.Tuple2 with
>>>>> a Tuple2Coder from this repo.
>>>>>
>>>>> *The problem*
>>>>>
>>>>> If the Records dataset is tiny like 5 days, everything seems fine
>>>>> (check normal_run.log).
>>>>>
>>>>>  INFO [main] (FlinkPipelineRunner.java:124) - Final aggregator values:
>>>>>  INFO [main] (FlinkPipelineRunner.java:127) - item count : 4322332
>>>>>  INFO [main] (FlinkPipelineRunner.java:127) - missing val1 : 0
>>>>>  INFO [main] (FlinkPipelineRunner.java:127) - multiple val1 : 0
>>>>>
>>>>> When I run the pipeline against 10+ days I encounter an error pointing
>>>>> that for some Records there's no Config (wrong_run.log).
>>>>>
>>>>>  INFO [main] (FlinkPipelineRunner.java:124) - Final aggregator values:
>>>>>  INFO [main] (FlinkPipelineRunner.java:127) - item count : 8577197
>>>>>  INFO [main] (FlinkPipelineRunner.java:127) - missing val1 : 6
>>>>>  INFO [main] (FlinkPipelineRunner.java:127) - multiple val1 : 0
>>>>>
>>>>> Then I've added some extra logging messages:
>>>>>
>>>>> (ConvertToItem.java:144) - 68643 items for KeyValue3 on:
>>>>> 1462665600000000
>>>>> (ConvertToItem.java:140) - no items for KeyValue3 on: 1463184000000000
>>>>> (ConvertToItem.java:123) - missing for KeyValue3 on: 1462924800000000
>>>>> (ConvertToItem.java:142) - 753707 items for KeyValue3 on:
>>>>> 1462924800000000 marked as no-loc
>>>>> (ConvertToItem.java:123) - missing for KeyValue3 on: 1462752000000000
>>>>> (ConvertToItem.java:142) - 749901 items for KeyValue3 on:
>>>>> 1462752000000000 marked as no-loc
>>>>> (ConvertToItem.java:144) - 754578 items for KeyValue3 on:
>>>>> 1462406400000000
>>>>> (ConvertToItem.java:144) - 751574 items for KeyValue3 on:
>>>>> 1463011200000000
>>>>> (ConvertToItem.java:123) - missing for KeyValue3 on: 1462665600000000
>>>>> (ConvertToItem.java:142) - 754758 items for KeyValue3 on:
>>>>> 1462665600000000 marked as no-loc
>>>>> (ConvertToItem.java:123) - missing for KeyValue3 on: 1463184000000000
>>>>> (ConvertToItem.java:142) - 694372 items for KeyValue3 on:
>>>>> 1463184000000000 marked as no-loc
>>>>>
>>>>> You can spot that in first line 68643 items were processed for
>>>>> KeyValue3 and time 1462665600000000.
>>>>> Later on in line 9 it seems the operation processes the same key
>>>>> again, but it reports that no Config was available for these Records.
>>>>> The line 10 informs they've been marked as no-loc.
>>>>>
>>>>> The line 2 is saying that there were no items for KeyValue3 and time
>>>>> 1463184000000000, but in line 11 you can read that the items for this
>>>>> (key,day) pair were processed later and they've lacked a Config.
>>>>>
>>>>> *Work-around (after more testing, doesn't work, staying with Tuple2)*
>>>>>
>>>>> I've switched from using Tuple2 to a Protocol Buffer message:
>>>>>
>>>>> message KeyDay {
>>>>>   optional ByteString key = 1;
>>>>>   optional int64 timestamp_usec = 2;
>>>>> }
>>>>>
>>>>> But using Tuple2.of() was just easier than:
>>>>> KeyDay.newBuilder().setKey(...).setTimestampUsec(...).build().
>>>>>
>>>>> // The original description comes from:
>>>>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/37473682/items-not-groupped-correctly-cogroupbykey
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
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