Steven,
In practice, data shouldn't be migrating that often. If it is then you
probably have bigger problems. You should be able to use the metadata api
to find the instance the key should be on and then when you check that node
you can also check with the metadata api that the key should still be on
this host. If streams is rebalancing while you query an exception will be
raised and you'll need to retry the request once the rebalance has
completed.
HTH,
Damian
On Tue, 6 Jun 2017 at 18:11 Steven Schlansker <sschlans...@opentable.com>
wrote:
>
> > On Jun 6, 2017, at 6:16 AM, Eno Thereska <eno.there...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Steven,
> >
> > Do you know beforehand if a key exists? If you know that and are getting
> null() the code will have to retry by refreshing the metadata and going to
> the new instance. If you don’t know beforehand if a key exists or not you
> might have to check all instances of a store to make sure.
> >
>
> No, I am not presupposing that the key can exist -- this is a user visible
> API and will
> be prone to "accidents" :)
>
> Thanks for the insight. I worry that even checking all stores is not
> truly sufficient,
> as querying different all workers at different times in the presence of
> migrating data
> can still in theory miss it given pessimal execution.
>
> I'm sure I've long wandered off into the hypothetical, but I dream of some
> day being
> cool like Jepsen :)
>
> > Eno
> >
> >
> >> On Jun 5, 2017, at 10:12 PM, Steven Schlansker <
> sschlans...@opentable.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi everyone, me again :)
> >>
> >> I'm still trying to implement my "remoting" layer that allows
> >> my clients to see the partitioned Kafka Streams state
> >> regardless of which instance they hit. Roughly, my lookup is:
> >>
> >> Message get(Key key) {
> >> RemoteInstance instance = selectPartition(key);
> >> return instance.get(key); // http remoting
> >> }
> >>
> >> RemoteInstance.get(Key key) { // http endpoint
> >> return readOnlyKeyValueStore.get(key);
> >> }
> >>
> >> However, the mapping of partitions to instances may change.
> >> If you call KeyValueStore.get(K) where K is on a partition you
> >> don't own, it returns null. This is indistinguishable from a
> >> successful get on a key that doesn't exist.
> >>
> >> If one instance selects a sibling instance right as the partition is
> failing
> >> off of that instance, it may get routed there and by the time it gets
> >> the request no longer "owns" the partition -- returns a false 'null'.
> >>
> >> You can try re-checking after you get a null value, but that's
> susceptible
> >> to the same race -- it's unlikely but possible that the data migrates
> *back*
> >> before you do this re-check.
> >>
> >> Is there any way to correctly implement this without races? I'd imagine
> >> you need a new primitive like KeyValueStore#get that atomically finds
> >> the key or throws an exception if it is not in an owned partition
> >> at the time of lookup so you know to recheck the partition and retry.
> >>
> >> Thoughts?
> >>
> >> Thanks again,
> >> Steven
> >>
> >
>
>
