Thanks again Fabian for providing nice suggestion!
Finally I got it working with applying your suggestion. Couple of tricks
was needed:
1. I had to apply a hack (create new TimestampExtractor class to package
org.apache.flink.blabla...) since Expression.resultType is defined as
"package private" for flink. I feel adjusting scope of Explain's methods
(at least resultType) to "public" would help on implementing custom
TimestampExtractor in users' side: please let me know your thought about
this. If you think it makes sense, I will file an issue and submit a PR, or
initiate a new thread in dev mailing list to discuss it if the step is
recommend.
2. To ensure KafkaTableSource's verification of rowtime field type, the
type of field (here in "eventTime") should be defined as SQL_TIMESTAMP
whereas the type of field in JSON should be defined as STRING.
Kafka010JsonTableSource.builder()
.forTopic(topic)
.withSchema(TableSchema.builder()
.field("eventTime", Types.SQL_TIMESTAMP)
.build())
.forJsonSchema(TableSchema.builder()
.field("eventTime", Types.STRING)
.build())
.withKafkaProperties(prop)
.withRowtimeAttribute(
"eventTime",
new IsoDateStringAwareExistingField("eventTime"),
new BoundedOutOfOrderTimestamps(Time.minutes(1).toMilliseconds)
)
.build()
Thanks again!
Jungtaek Lim (HeartSaVioR)
2018년 7월 4일 (수) 오후 8:18, Fabian Hueske <fhue...@gmail.com>님이 작성:
> Hi Jungtaek,
>
> If it is "only" about the missing support to parse a string as timestamp,
> you could also implement a custom TimestampExtractor that works similar to
> the ExistingField extractor [1].
> You would need to adjust a few things and use the expression
> "Cast(Cast('tsString, SqlTimeTypeInfo.TIMESTAMP), Types.LONG)" to convert
> the String to a Long.
> So far this works only if the date is formatted like "2018-05-28
> 12:34:56.000"
>
> Regarding the side outputs, these would not be handled as results but just
> redirect late records into separate data streams. We would offer a
> configuration to write them to a sink like HDFS or Kafka.
>
> Best, Fabian
>
> [1]
> https://github.com/apache/flink/blob/master/flink-libraries/flink-table/src/main/scala/org/apache/flink/table/sources/tsextractors/ExistingField.scala
>
> 2018-07-04 11:54 GMT+02:00 Jungtaek Lim <kabh...@gmail.com>:
>
>> Thanks Chesnay! Great news to hear. I'll try out with latest master
>> branch.
>>
>> Thanks Fabian for providing the docs!
>>
>> I guess I already tried out with KafkaJsonTableSource and failed back to
>> custom TableSource since the type of rowtime field is string unfortunately,
>> and I needed to parse and map to new SQL timestamp field in order to use it
>> to rowtime attribute.
>>
>> I guess JSON -> table fields mapping is provided only for renaming, and
>> "withRowtimeAttribute" doesn't help defining new field to use it as rowtime.
>>
>> Are there better approaches on this scenario? Or would we be better to
>> assume the type of rowtime field is always timestamp?
>>
>> Btw, providing late-data side output in Table API might be just a matter
>> of how to define it correctly (not a technical or syntactic issue), though
>> providing in SQL might be tricky (as the semantic of SQL query is not for
>> multiple outputs).
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Jungtaek Lim (HeartSaVioR)
>>
>> 2018년 7월 4일 (수) 오후 5:49, Fabian Hueske <fhue...@gmail.com>님이 작성:
>>
>>> Hi Jungtaek,
>>>
>>> Flink 1.5.0 features a TableSource for Kafka and JSON [1], incl.
>>> timestamp & watemark generation [2].
>>> It would be great if you could let us know, if that addresses your use
>>> case and if not what's missing or not working.
>>>
>>> So far Table API / SQL does not have support for late-data side outputs.
>>> However, that's on the road map. The idea is to filter streams during
>>> ingestion for late events and passing them to a side output.
>>> Currently, operators just drop late events.
>>>
>>> Best, Fabian
>>>
>>> [1]
>>> https://ci.apache.org/projects/flink/flink-docs-release-1.5/dev/table/sourceSinks.html#kafkajsontablesource
>>> [2]
>>> https://ci.apache.org/projects/flink/flink-docs-release-1.5/dev/table/sourceSinks.html#configuring-a-rowtime-attribute
>>>
>>> 2018-07-04 10:39 GMT+02:00 Chesnay Schepler <ches...@apache.org>:
>>>
>>>> The watermark display in the UI is bugged in 1.5.0.
>>>>
>>>> It is fixed on master and the release-1.5 branch, and will be included
>>>> in 1.5.1 that is slated to be released next week.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 04.07.2018 10:22, Jungtaek Lim wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Sorry I forgot to mention the version: Flink 1.5.0, and I ran the app
>>>> in IntelliJ, not tried from cluster.
>>>>
>>>> 2018년 7월 4일 (수) 오후 5:15, Jungtaek Lim <kabh...@gmail.com>님이 작성:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi Flink users,
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm new to Flink and trying to evaluate couple of streaming frameworks
>>>>> via implementing same apps.
>>>>>
>>>>> While implementing apps with both Table API and SQL, I found there's
>>>>> 'no watermark' presented in Flink UI, whereas I had been struggling to
>>>>> apply row time attribute.
>>>>>
>>>>> For example, below is one of TableSource implementation which wraps
>>>>> DataStream reading from Kafka.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> https://github.com/HeartSaVioR/iot-trucking-app-flink/blob/master/src/main/scala/net/heartsavior/flink/datasource/TruckSpeedSource.scala
>>>>>
>>>>> (Actually I ended up implementing TableSource to address adding
>>>>> rowtime attribute as well as reading and parsing JSON. I'd be really happy
>>>>> if someone can guide a way to get rid of needed of custom implementation
>>>>> of
>>>>> TableSource.)
>>>>>
>>>>> and below is one of app I implemented:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> https://github.com/HeartSaVioR/iot-trucking-app-flink/blob/master/src/main/scala/net/heartsavior/flink/app/sql/IotTruckingAppMovingAggregationsOnSpeedSql.scala
>>>>>
>>>>> Btw, I'm about to experiment side-output with late events, but is it
>>>>> possible to leverage side-output with Table API / SQL? Looks like
>>>>> DataStream exposes late events only when it's converted to
>>>>> AllWindowedStream.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks in advance!
>>>>>
>>>>> Best Regards,
>>>>> Jungtaek Lim (HeartSaVioR)
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>
