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Chamikara Madhusanka Jayalath commented on BEAM-3788: ----------------------------------------------------- I believe unbounded SDF support for Python SDK is few months away. We are also working on adding cross-language transforms support to Dataflow but I don't have an ETA yet. As I mentioned in a previous comment either of these will pave the way for a KafkaIO in Python SDK on Dataflow. KafkaIO is already available as a cross-language transform for Flink: [https://github.com/apache/beam/blob/master/sdks/python/apache_beam/io/external/kafka.py] > Implement a Kafka IO for Python SDK > ----------------------------------- > > Key: BEAM-3788 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BEAM-3788 > Project: Beam > Issue Type: New Feature > Components: sdk-py-core > Reporter: Chamikara Madhusanka Jayalath > Priority: Major > > This will be implemented using the Splittable DoFn framework. -- This message was sent by Atlassian Jira (v8.3.4#803005)