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Fabian Hueske commented on FLINK-8599:
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[~kkl0u]: IIRC, you've been involved in the design of the monitoring file
source. What do you think?
> Improve the failure behavior of the ContinuousFileReaderOperator for bad files
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>
> 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.
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