Github user bowenli86 commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/6021#discussion_r189174902
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flink-connectors/flink-connector-kinesis/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/streaming/connectors/kinesis/FlinkKinesisProducer.java
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@@ -326,6 +342,24 @@ private void checkAndPropagateAsyncError() throws
Exception {
}
}
+ /**
+ * If the internal queue of the {@link KinesisProducer} gets too long,
+ * flush some of the records until we are below the limit again.
+ * We don't want to flush _all_ records at this point since that would
+ * break record aggregation.
+ */
+ private void checkQueueLimit() {
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probably rename it to something different, e.g `enforceQueueLimit()`?
because it clearly does things more than just 'check'
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