I will consider mapping KinesisRecord to Row and then sending it via cross-language, but I think that for now python's RowCoder does not support bytes (correct me if I'm wrong)
On 2020/07/16 23:07:06, Luke Cwik <lc...@google.com> wrote: > If you want to send across a "rich" data record, consider defining a schema > and using a row coder since row coder is XLang compatible. > > On Thu, Jul 16, 2020 at 9:28 AM Robert Bradshaw <rober...@google.com> wrote: > > > Note also that once you get the Bytes in Python, you can use whatever > > coder (or Map) to decode them that you want. > > > > On Thu, Jul 16, 2020 at 9:21 AM Boyuan Zhang <boyu...@google.com> wrote: > > > > > > Hi Piotr, > > > > > > X-Lang uses TypedWithoutMetadata, which outputs the KV directly instead > > of KafkaRecord: see here. Given the limit that x-lang can only work with > > well-known coders, if you want to process the KV in python output from > > KafkaIO, the coders of key and value should be well-known in beam. By > > default, the key and value are bytes: see here. > > > > > > On Thu, Jul 16, 2020 at 8:48 AM Piotr Szuberski < > > piotr.szuber...@polidea.com> wrote: > > >> > > >> I'm writing a python wrappers for KinesisIO and I encountered a problem > > that Read transform creates a PCollection with KinesisRecord class which's > > coder by default is assigned as 'beam:coders:javasdk:0.1'. I managed to > > register this coder using CoderTranslatorRegistrar which adds the coder to > > the KNOWN_CODER_URNS and therefore is sent with my custom urn. > > >> > > >> Kafka's cross language Write transform uses KV<>, is encoded by > > default in beam. > > >> > > >> But I can't see how KafkaRecordCoder is translated in cross-language > > usage to python? I can't see any place in code where it gets registered. > > >> > > >> I just don't get how KafkaIO.Read works in cross-language. Could > > someone clarify me how does it work? > > >> > > >> Thanks in advance! > > >
