Github user tzulitai commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/5958#discussion_r186337736
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flink-core/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/api/common/serialization/ConsumerRecordMetaInfo.java
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+
+package org.apache.flink.api.common.serialization;
+
+import org.apache.flink.annotation.Public;
+
+/**
+ * The consumer record meta info contains, besides the actual message,
some meta information, such as
+ * key, topic, partition, offset and timestamp for Apache kafka
+ *
+ * <p><b>Note:</b>The timestamp is only valid for Kafka clients 0.10+, for
older versions the value has the value `Long.MinValue` and
+ * the timestampType has the value `NO_TIMESTAMP_TYPE`.
+ */
+@Public
+public interface ConsumerRecordMetaInfo {
+ /**
+ * The TimestampType is introduced in the kafka clients 0.10+. This
interface is also used for the Kafka connector 0.9
+ * so a local enumeration is needed.
+ */
+ enum TimestampType {
+ NO_TIMESTAMP_TYPE, CREATE_TIME, INGEST_TIME
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I wonder if `CREATE_TIME` should be renamed as `EVENT_TIME`, to be more
coherent with Flink's terminologies.
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