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ASF GitHub Bot commented on FLINK-8533:
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Github user StephanEwen commented on a diff in the pull request:

    https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/5427#discussion_r184478068
  
    --- Diff: 
flink-runtime/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/runtime/checkpoint/MasterTriggerRestoreHook.java
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    @@ -138,4 +158,11 @@
                 */
                <V> MasterTriggerRestoreHook<V> create();
        }
    +
    +   /**
    +    * The hook initialization context.
    +    */
    +   interface HookInitializationContext {
    --- End diff --
    
    I assume this is for ease of future evolvability?


> Support MasterTriggerRestoreHook state reinitialization
> -------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: FLINK-8533
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-8533
>             Project: Flink
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: State Backends, Checkpointing
>    Affects Versions: 1.3.0
>            Reporter: Eron Wright 
>            Assignee: Eron Wright 
>            Priority: Major
>
> {{MasterTriggerRestoreHook}} enables coordination with an external system for 
> taking or restoring checkpoints. When execution is restarted from a 
> checkpoint, {{restoreCheckpoint}} is called to restore or reinitialize the 
> external system state. There's an edge case where the external state is not 
> adequately reinitialized, that is when execution fails _before the first 
> checkpoint_. In that case, the hook is not invoked and has no opportunity to 
> restore the external state to initial conditions.
> The impact is a loss of exactly-once semantics in this case. For example, in 
> the Pravega source function, the reader group state (e.g. stream position 
> data) is stored externally. In the normal restore case, the reader group 
> state is forcibly rewound to the checkpointed position. In the edge case 
> where no checkpoint has yet been successful, the reader group state is not 
> rewound and consequently some amount of stream data is not reprocessed.
> A possible fix would be to introduce an {{initializeState}} method on the 
> hook interface. Similar to {{CheckpointedFunction::initializeState}}, this 
> method would be invoked unconditionally upon hook initialization. The Pravega 
> hook would, for example, initialize or forcibly reinitialize the reader group 
> state.    



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