+1 for your proposal Pei

On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 5:54 PM, Pei He <[email protected]> wrote:

> Looks to me that followings are agreed:
> (1). adding cancel() and waitUntilFinish() to PipelineResult.
> (In streaming mode, "all data watermarks reach to infinity" is
> considered as finished.)
> (2). PipelineRunner.run() should return relatively quick as soon as
> the pipeline/job is started/running. The blocking logic should be left
> to users' code to handle with PipelineResult.waitUntilFinish(). (Test
> runners that finish quickly can block run() until the execution is
> done. So, it is cleaner to verify test results after run())
>
> I will send out PR for (1), and create jira issues to improve runners for
> (2).
>
> waitToRunning() is controversial, and we have several half way agreed
> proposals.
> I will pull them out from this thread, so we can close this proposal
> with cancel() and waitUntilFinish(). And, i will create a jira issue
> to track how to support ''waiting until other states".
>
> Does that sound good with anyone?
>
> Thanks
> --
> Pei
>
> On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 4:32 PM, Robert Bradshaw
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 4:18 PM, Ben Chambers <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >> This health check seems redundant with just waiting a while and then
> >> checking on the status, other than returning earlier in the case of
> >> reaching a terminal state. What about adding:
> >>
> >> /**
> >>  * Returns the state after waiting the specified duration. Will return
> >> earlier if the pipeline
> >>  * reaches a terminal state.
> >>  */
> >> State getStateAfter(Duration duration);
> >>
> >> This seems to be a useful building block, both for the user's pipeline
> (in
> >> case they wanted to build something like wait and then check health) and
> >> also for the SDK (to implement waitUntilFinished, etc.)
> >
> > A generic waitFor(Duration) which may return early if a terminal state
> > is entered seems useful. I don't know that we need a return value
> > here, given that we an then query the PipelineResult however we want
> > once this returns. waitUntilFinished is simply
> > waitFor(InfiniteDuration).
> >
> >> On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 4:11 PM Pei He <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >>
> >>> I am not in favor of supporting wait for every states or
> >>> waitUntilState(...).
> >>> One reason is PipelineResult.State is not well defined and is not
> >>> agreed upon runners.
> >>> Another reason is users might not want to wait for a particular state.
> >>> For example,
> >>> waitUntilFinish() is to wait for a terminal state.
> >>> So, even runners have different states, we still can define shared
> >>> properties, such as finished/terminal.
> >
> > +1. Running is an intermediate state that doesn't have an obvious
> > mapping onto all runners, which is another reason it's odd to wait
> > until then. All runners have terminal states.
> >
> >>> I think when users call waitUntilRunning(), they want to make sure the
> >>> pipeline is up running and is healthy.
> >> > Maybe we want to wait for at
> >>> least one element went through the pipeline.
> >
> > -1, That might be a while... Also, you may not start generating data
> > until you pipline is up.
> >
> >>> What about changing the waitUntilRunning() to the following?
> >>>
> >>> /**
> >>> * Check if the pipeline is health for the duration.
> >>> *
> >>> * Return true if the pipeline is healthy at the end of duration.
> >>> * Return false if the pipeline is not healthy at the end of duration.
> >>> * <p>It may return early if the pipeline is in an unrecoverable failure
> >>> state.
> >>> */
> >>> boolean PipelineResult.healthCheck(Duration duration)
> >>>
> >>> (I think this also addressed Robert's comment about waitToRunning())
> >>>
> >>> On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 1:08 PM, Kenneth Knowles
> <[email protected]>
> >>> wrote:
> >>> > Some more comments:
> >>> >
> >>> >  - What are the allowed/expected state transitions prior to RUNNING?
> >>> Today,
> >>> > I presume it is any nonterminal state, so it can be UNKNOWN or
> STOPPED
> >>> > (which really means "not yet started") prior to RUNNING. Is this
> what we
> >>> > want?
> >>> >
> >>> >  - If a job can be paused, a transition from RUNNING to STOPPED, then
> >>> > waitUntilPaused(Duration) makes sense.
> >>> >
> >>> >  - Assuming there is some polling under the hood, are runners
> required to
> >>> > send back a full history of transitions? Or can transitions be
> missed,
> >>> with
> >>> > only the latest state retrieved?
> >>> >
> >>> >  - If the latter, then does waitUntilRunning() only wait until
> RUNNING or
> >>> > does it also return when it sees STOPPED, which could certainly
> indicate
> >>> > that the job transitioned to RUNNING then STOPPED in between polls.
> In
> >>> that
> >>> > case it is, today, the same as waitUntilStateIsKnown().
> >>> >
> >>> >  - The obvious limit of this discussion is waitUntilState(Duration,
> >>> > Set<State>), which is the same amount of work to implement. Am I
> correct
> >>> > that everyone in this thread thinks this generality is just not the
> right
> >>> > thing for a user API?
> >>> >
> >>> >  - This enum could probably use revision. I'd chose some combination
> of
> >>> > tightening the enum, making it extensible, and make some aspect of it
> >>> > free-form. Not sure where the best balance lies.
> >>> >
> >>> >
> >>> >
> >>> > On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 12:47 PM, Ben Chambers
> >>> <[email protected]
> >>> >> wrote:
> >>> >
> >>> >> (Minor Issue: I'd propose waitUntilDone and waitUntilRunning rather
> than
> >>> >> waitToRunning which reads oddly)
> >>> >>
> >>> >> The only reason to separate submission from waitUntilRunning would
> be if
> >>> >> you wanted to kick off several pipelines in quick succession, then
> wait
> >>> for
> >>> >> them all to be running. For instance:
> >>> >>
> >>> >> PipelineResult p1Future = p1.run();
> >>> >> PipelineResult p2Future = p2.run();
> >>> >> ...
> >>> >>
> >>> >> p1Future.waitUntilRunning();
> >>> >> p2Future.waitUntilRunning();
> >>> >> ...
> >>> >>
> >>> >> In this setup, you can more quickly start several pipelines, but
> your
> >>> main
> >>> >> program would wait and report any errors before exiting.
> >>> >>
> >>> >> On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 12:41 PM Robert Bradshaw
> >>> >> <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>> >>
> >>> >> > I'm in favor of the proposal. My only question is whether we need
> >>> >> > PipelineResult.waitToRunning(), instead I'd propose that run()
> block
> >>> >> > until the pipeline's running/successfully submitted (or failed).
> This
> >>> >> > would simplify the API--we'd only have one kind of wait that makes
> >>> >> > sense in all cases.
> >>> >> >
> >>> >> > What kinds of interactions would one want to have with the
> >>> >> > PipelineResults before it's running?
> >>> >> >
> >>> >> > On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 12:24 PM, Thomas Groh
> >>> <[email protected]>
> >>> >> > wrote:
> >>> >> > > TestPipeline is probably the one runner that can be expected to
> >>> block,
> >>> >> as
> >>> >> > > certainly JUnit tests and likely other tests will run the
> Pipeline,
> >>> and
> >>> >> > > succeed, even if the PipelineRunner throws an exception.
> Luckily,
> >>> this
> >>> >> > can
> >>> >> > > be added to TestPipeline.run(), which already has additional
> >>> behavior
> >>> >> > > associated with it (currently regarding the unwrapping of
> >>> >> > AssertionErrors)
> >>> >> > >
> >>> >> > > On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 11:40 AM, Kenneth Knowles
> >>> >> <[email protected]
> >>> >> > >
> >>> >> > > wrote:
> >>> >> > >
> >>> >> > >> I like this proposal. It makes pipeline.run() seem like a
> pretty
> >>> >> normal
> >>> >> > >> async request, and easy to program with. It removes the
> implicit
> >>> >> > assumption
> >>> >> > >> in the prior design that main() is pretty much just "build and
> run
> >>> a
> >>> >> > >> pipeline".
> >>> >> > >>
> >>> >> > >> The part of this that I care about most is being able to write
> a
> >>> >> program
> >>> >> > >> (not the pipeline, but the program that launches one or more
> >>> >> pipelines)
> >>> >> > >> that has reasonable cross-runner behavior.
> >>> >> > >>
> >>> >> > >> One comment:
> >>> >> > >>
> >>> >> > >> On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 3:39 PM, Pei He
> <[email protected]>
> >>> >> > wrote:
> >>> >> > >> >
> >>> >> > >> > 4. PipelineRunner.run() should (but not required) do
> non-blocking
> >>> >> runs
> >>> >> > >> >
> >>> >> > >>
> >>> >> > >> I think we can elaborate on this a little bit. Obviously there
> >>> might
> >>> >> be
> >>> >> > >> "blocking" in terms of, say, an HTTP round-trip to submit the
> job,
> >>> but
> >>> >> > >> run() should never be non-terminating.
> >>> >> > >>
> >>> >> > >> For a test runner that finishes the pipeline quickly, I would
> be
> >>> fine
> >>> >> > with
> >>> >> > >> run() just executing the pipeline, but the PipelineResult
> should
> >>> still
> >>> >> > >> emulate the usual - just always returning a terminal status. It
> >>> would
> >>> >> be
> >>> >> > >> annoying to add waitToFinish() to the end of all our tests, but
> >>> >> leaving
> >>> >> > a
> >>> >> > >> run() makes the tests only work with special blocking runner
> >>> wrappers
> >>> >> > (and
> >>> >> > >> make them poor examples). A JUnit @Rule for test pipeline would
> >>> hide
> >>> >> all
> >>> >> > >> that, perhaps.
> >>> >> > >>
> >>> >> > >>
> >>> >> > >> Kenn
> >>> >> > >>
> >>> >> >
> >>> >>
> >>>
>

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