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mingleizhang commented on FLINK-8599: ------------------------------------- Thanks for reporting this [~ChengzhiZhao]. I think it can be an improvement. > Improve the failure behavior of the ContinuousFileReaderOperator for bad files > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Key: FLINK-8599 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-8599 > Project: Flink > Issue Type: New Feature > Components: DataStream API > Affects Versions: 1.4.0, 1.3.2 > Reporter: Chengzhi Zhao > Priority: Major > > So we have a s3 path that flink is monitoring that path to see new files > available. > {code:java} > val avroInputStream_activity = env.readFile(format, path, > FileProcessingMode.PROCESS_CONTINUOUSLY, 10000) {code} > > I am doing both internal and external check pointing and let's say there is a > bad file (for example, a different schema been dropped in this folder) came > to the path and flink will do several retries. I want to take those bad files > and let the process continue. However, since the file path persist in the > checkpoint, when I try to resume from external checkpoint, it threw the > following error on no file been found. > > {code:java} > java.io.IOException: Error opening the Input Split s3a://myfile [0,904]: No > such file or directory: s3a://myfile{code} > > As [~fhue...@gmail.com] suggested, we could check if a path exists and before > trying to read a file and ignore the input split instead of throwing an > exception and causing a failure. > > Also, I am thinking about add an error output for bad files as an option to > users. So if there is any bad files exist we could move them in a separated > path and do further analysis. > > Not sure how people feel about it, but I'd like to contribute on it if people > think this can be an improvement. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v7.6.3#76005)