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Thomas Weise commented on BEAM-7870:
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Thanks for the update. I would also prefer the specific record type
(PubsubMessage/KafkaRecord) over generic Row.
> Externally configured KafkaIO / PubsubIO consumer causes coder problems
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>
> Key: BEAM-7870
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BEAM-7870
> Project: Beam
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: runner-flink, sdk-java-core
> Reporter: Maximilian Michels
> Assignee: Maximilian Michels
> Priority: Major
>
> There are limitations for the consumer to work correctly. The biggest issue
> is the structure of KafkaIO itself, which uses a combination of the source
> interface and DoFns to generate the desired output. The problem is that the
> source interface is natively translated by the Flink Runner to support
> unbounded sources in portability, while the DoFn runs in a Java environment.
> To transfer data between the two a coder needs to be involved. It happens to
> be that the initial read does not immediately drop the KafakRecord structure
> which does not work together well with our current assumption of only
> supporting "standard coders" present in all SDKs. Only the subsequent DoFn
> converts the KafkaRecord structure into a raw KV[byte, byte], but the DoFn
> won't have the coder available in its environment.
> There are several possible solutions:
> 1. Make the DoFn which drops the KafkaRecordCoder a native Java transform in
> the Flink Runner
> 2. Modify KafkaIO to immediately drop the KafkaRecord structure
> 3. Add the KafkaRecordCoder to all SDKs
> 4. Add a generic coder, e.g. AvroCoder to all SDKs
> For a workaround which uses (3), please see this patch which is not a proper
> fix but adds KafkaRecordCoder to the SDK such that it can be used
> encode/decode records:
> [https://github.com/mxm/beam/commit/b31cf99c75b3972018180d8ccc7e73d311f4cfed]
>
> See also
> [https://github.com/apache/beam/pull/8251|https://github.com/apache/beam/pull/8251:]
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