I can answer for the case of SolrIO and ElasticsearchIO, Luke.
Retrying in SolrIO was my first contribution to Beam and I see in the PR
[1] that I was just copying JdbcIO for styling. ElasticsearchIO then
followed suit.

Exposing FluentBackoff seems sensible to me.

[1] https://github.com/apache/beam/pull/4905

On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 8:59 PM Akshay Iyangar <[email protected]> wrote:

> I’m ok either having something generic that calls the FluentBackoff
> internally or making FluentBackoff available for public. Whichever way the
> community decides I can change all IO’s to comply to the standard
>
>
>
> *From: *Alexey Romanenko <[email protected]>
> *Reply-To: *"[email protected]" <[email protected]>
> *Date: *Tuesday, April 21, 2020 at 9:42 AM
> *To: *"[email protected]" <[email protected]>
> *Subject: *Re: ** Configurable FluentBackoff for IO's **
>
>
>
> Notice: This email is from an external sender.
>
>
>
> I can guess it was done in this way to avoid using a class from
> “org.apache.beam.sdk.util” package.
>
>
>
> Can we just move FluentBackoff from “org.apache.beam.sdk.util” package to
> another package, available for users, or to create a common wrapper for
> such cases, like IO retries?
>
>
>
> On 17 Apr 2020, at 21:14, Luke Cwik <[email protected]> wrote:
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> On Fri, Apr 17, 2020 at 9:57 AM Alexey Romanenko <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> As we can see, that support of Backoff in some way is quite demanded
> feature for different IOs. Of course, we don’t want to expose too many
> knobs but seems that this “backoff knob" should be able to be configured by
> user since it depends on different aspects of its environment.
>
>
>
> In the PR mentioned by Jonothan, we discussed that FluentBackoff was not
> exposed since it’s a part of “org.apache.beam.sdk.util” package which is
> for internal use only.
>
>
>
> Since many IOs already use this by wrapping it around own API classes, why
> not to make this FluentBackoff as a part of public API?
>
>
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>
>
> That is what we are trying to answer. Why did those implementations decide
> to wrap it instead of exposing it.
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>
> On 17 Apr 2020, at 17:16, Luke Cwik <[email protected]> wrote:
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> Jonothan, you're still on point because exposing and/or using the client
> specific retry implementation is a valid strategy as it exposes all the
> knobs that a user may want to use.
>
> A downside I can see is that it may expose knobs that are irrelevant for
> the transform or makes it difficult to integrate other forms of retry that
> are specific to the transform outside of what the client library may do
> such as what to do with failed records being processed (retried, goto a
> DLQ, be dropped).
>
>
>
> Looking through the code for more examples, I see everyone rolling their
> own instead of exposing FluentBackoff or exposing client specific retry
> implementations:
>
> DynamoDBIO:
> https://github.com/apache/beam/blob/a1b79fdc995c869d1f32fab2e2004621b2d53988/sdks/java/io/amazon-web-services2/src/main/java/org/apache/beam/sdk/io/aws2/dynamodb/DynamoDBIO.java#L290
>
> ElasticSearchIO:
> https://github.com/apache/beam/blob/a1b79fdc995c869d1f32fab2e2004621b2d53988/sdks/java/io/elasticsearch/src/main/java/org/apache/beam/sdk/io/elasticsearch/ElasticsearchIO.java#L937
>
> ClickHouseIO:
> https://github.com/apache/beam/blob/a1b79fdc995c869d1f32fab2e2004621b2d53988/sdks/java/io/clickhouse/src/main/java/org/apache/beam/sdk/io/clickhouse/ClickHouseIO.java#L258
>
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 17, 2020 at 8:14 AM Chamikara Jayalath <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> Another option might be to add explicitly defined retry policies to the
> API. For example, see following for BigQueryIO.
>
>
>
>
> https://github.com/apache/beam/blob/a1b79fdc995c869d1f32fab2e2004621b2d53988/sdks/java/io/google-cloud-platform/src/main/java/org/apache/beam/sdk/io/gcp/bigquery/InsertRetryPolicy.java
>
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 9:48 PM Akshay Iyangar <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> Luke
>
> I think for [2] and [3] it would be a fair statement that may be they
> wanted to add a custom retry configuration. But [2] looks very specific in
> the sense it doesn’t allow client to be more flexible [3] is something that
> I feel can be moved up and made generic enough.
>
>
>
> Jonothan
>
> Sorry for that, this was actually with regards to JdbcIO. My bad calling
> it S3.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> *From: *Jonothan Farr <[email protected]>
> *Reply-To: *"[email protected]" <[email protected]>
> *Date: *Thursday, April 16, 2020 at 7:07 PM
> *To: *"[email protected]" <[email protected]>
> *Subject: *Re: ** Configurable FluentBackoff for IO's **
>
>
>
> Notice: This email is from an external sender.
>
>
>
> Maybe this is a separate conversation, but for AWS IOs specifically
> wouldn't it be better to use the AWS client's retry policy? Something
> similar to this:
> ```
>   @Override
>   public AmazonS3ClientBuilder createBuilder(S3Options s3Options) {
>     RetryPolicy retryPolicy = new RetryPolicy(
>         PredefinedRetryPolicies.DEFAULT_RETRY_CONDITION,
>         PredefinedRetryPolicies.DEFAULT_BACKOFF_STRATEGY,
>         PredefinedRetryPolicies.DEFAULT_MAX_ERROR_RETRY,
>         false);
>     AmazonS3ClientBuilder builder =
>         AmazonS3ClientBuilder.standard()
>
> .withClientConfiguration(PredefinedClientConfigurations.defaultConfig()
>                 .withRetryPolicy(retryPolicy))
>             .withCredentials(s3Options.getAwsCredentialsProvider());
>     ...
> ```
>
> We had a similar discussion on https://github.com/apache/beam/pull/9765
> about KinesisIO. I only bring it up because you mentioned configuring
> retries in S3.
>
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 1:57 PM Luke Cwik <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I was wondering why IOs went with their own retry configuration object
> instead of making FluentBackoff[1] public. Some examples are SnsIO[2] and
> SolrIO[3]. Was it because we thought that IOs would likely need specialized
> retry configuration that a general retry configuration class wouldn't
> apply?
>
>
>
> 1:
> https://github.com/apache/beam/blob/c3bd4854e879da65060de8cd259865a9b34742c7/sdks/java/core/src/main/java/org/apache/beam/sdk/util/FluentBackoff.java#L30
> 2:
> https://github.com/apache/beam/blob/da9e17288e8473925674a4691d9e86252e67d7d7/sdks/java/io/amazon-web-services2/src/main/java/org/apache/beam/sdk/io/aws2/sns/SnsIO.java#L262
> 3:
> https://github.com/apache/beam/blob/da9e17288e8473925674a4691d9e86252e67d7d7/sdks/java/io/solr/src/main/java/org/apache/beam/sdk/io/solr/SolrIO.java#L225
>
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 11:59 AM Akshay Iyangar <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> Hi
>
>
>
> I actually wanted a way to configure FluentBackoff at the client side for
> S3 in that effort I created below PR.
>
> But as luke mentioned in the PR FluentBackoff is part of util and I can
> directly expose it to public.
>
>
>
> So a suggested alternative was to use a Configuration class that is public
> facing which then convert’s it to the internal beam class and have it
> generic enough to be used across IO’s.
>
>
>
> Just wanted to know what the community feels and if the above suggestion
> by luke is ok with other’s I’ll try to implement that instead.
>
>
>
>
>
> JIRA - 9742
>
> https://github.com/apache/beam/pull/11396
>
>
>
> Thanks
>
> Akshay I
>
>
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