Github user tillrohrmann commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/5184#discussion_r160114353
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flink-runtime/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/runtime/dispatcher/JobExecutionResultCache.java
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+package org.apache.flink.runtime.dispatcher;
+
+import org.apache.flink.api.common.JobID;
+import org.apache.flink.runtime.jobmaster.JobExecutionResult;
+
+import org.apache.flink.shaded.guava18.com.google.common.cache.Cache;
+import
org.apache.flink.shaded.guava18.com.google.common.cache.CacheBuilder;
+
+import javax.annotation.Nullable;
+
+import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
+
+import static org.apache.flink.util.Preconditions.checkState;
+
+/**
+ * Caches {@link JobExecutionResult}s.
+ */
+class JobExecutionResultCache {
+
+ private static final int MAX_RESULT_CACHE_DURATION_SECONDS = 300;
+
+ private final Cache<JobID, JobExecutionResult>
+ jobExecutionResultCache =
+ CacheBuilder.newBuilder()
+ .softValues()
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I assume that we use a LRU strategy if we hit the maximum size. But what
happens if we purged a job result and then a client asks for it. We should
return then at least something like the job finished but the execution result
couldn't be stored.
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