Thanks Thomas. That makes sense. Do you know if Dataflow runner shuts down?

[yep, I should have mentioned BoundedWindow.TIMESTAMP_MAX_VALUE]

On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 11:04 AM, Thomas Groh <[email protected]> wrote:

> The behavior of a runner with regards to source invocation when the source
> emits the maximum watermark (nit: BoundedWindow.TIMESTAMP_MAX_VALUE is the
> maximum timestamp; this is Long.MAX_VALUE in microseconds since the epoch,
> not millis as might be assumed) is currently runner-defined. This will
> cause watermark-based timers for the Global Window to fire, and all input
> elements should be considered droppably late. The DirectRunner will shut
> down by default if it reaches this state, but runners are not required to
> shut down if all watermarks reach this value.
>
> On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 9:46 AM, Raghu Angadi <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Note that KafkaIO lets you set your own watermark for each record.
>>
>> On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 9:45 AM, Raghu Angadi <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> So the main question here is how one can stop the unbounded pipeline at
>>> runtime.
>>>
>>> You can emit a special watermark (Long.MAX_VALUE) that will flush the
>>> entire pipeline. and will process. If that also makes runner stop reading
>>> from source, I am not sure, I would like to know. After that, I don't know
>>> if p.run() actually returns.
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 4:02 PM, Jesse Anderson <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> No code example that I know of. Look over the bounded read code in
>>>> KafkaIO. Use that as a base.
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Jun 23, 2016, 3:57 PM amir bahmanyari <[email protected]>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Thanks Jesse.
>>>>> Any KafkaIO code example that detects that end of file pls?
>>>>> Thanks
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> ------------------------------
>>>>> *From:* Jesse Anderson <[email protected]>
>>>>> *To:* amir bahmanyari <[email protected]>; "
>>>>> [email protected]" <[email protected]>
>>>>> *Sent:* Thursday, June 23, 2016 3:39 PM
>>>>>
>>>>> *Subject:* Re: End-of-data indicator in Unbounded KafkaIO
>>>>>
>>>>> You bound on an end of file message you emit at the producer. So the
>>>>> consumer or Kafka IO read would continue to read until an end of file
>>>>> message is reached. The number in the read method is arbitrary. You would
>>>>> write your own.
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, Jun 23, 2016, 3:34 PM amir bahmanyari <[email protected]>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks Jesse.
>>>>> I know bounded should do it. But, bounded gets tricky when you dont
>>>>> know how many records you may have in the data file.
>>>>> There is an upper bound, but what if there are more records than the
>>>>> upper-bound?
>>>>> I can set a counter in-memory, and check for its value. But, I need a
>>>>> way to interrupt p.run().
>>>>> Not sure if there is something like this in Beam API...
>>>>> I appreciate other folks' opinions on this topic as well....
>>>>> Thanks again.
>>>>>
>>>>> ------------------------------
>>>>> *From:* Jesse Anderson <[email protected]>
>>>>> *To:* amir bahmanyari <[email protected]>; "
>>>>> [email protected]" <[email protected]>
>>>>> *Sent:* Thursday, June 23, 2016 3:26 PM
>>>>> *Subject:* Re: End-of-data indicator in Unbounded KafkaIO
>>>>>
>>>>> You could make a bounded Kafka IO and wait for an end of file message.
>>>>> That said, I don't know if Kafka is the right technology for what
>>>>> you're trying to do. You might just process the files directly at that
>>>>> point.
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, Jun 23, 2016, 3:10 PM amir bahmanyari <[email protected]>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Sorry colleagues.
>>>>> I know "End-of-data" & Unbounded dont go hand in hand.
>>>>> Lets say I am invoking KafkaIO  unbounded.
>>>>> But at some point I run out of streaming data (finite number of
>>>>> records in my data file) and p.run() keeps running/waiting for more data
>>>>> and doesn't terminate of course.
>>>>> How do I know there has not been any more data recently coming to
>>>>> KafkaIo.read() for a given amount of time or any other runtime indicaor?
>>>>> Is there a way to interrupt p.run() upon detecting such an indicator
>>>>> so the execution can move on with the rest of the code?
>>>>> Thanks+regards
>>>>> Amir
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>
>>
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