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Stephan Ewen commented on FLINK-5479:
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This should be fixed with the introduction of the new Source API:
* 
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FLINK/FLIP-27%3A+Refactor+Source+Interface
* https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-10740

> Per-partition watermarks in FlinkKafkaConsumer should consider idle partitions
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: FLINK-5479
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-5479
>             Project: Flink
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Connectors / Kafka
>            Reporter: Tzu-Li (Gordon) Tai
>            Priority: Major
>
> Reported in ML: 
> http://apache-flink-user-mailing-list-archive.2336050.n4.nabble.com/Kafka-topic-partition-skewness-causes-watermark-not-being-emitted-td11008.html
> Similar to what's happening to idle sources blocking watermark progression in 
> downstream operators (see FLINK-5017), the per-partition watermark mechanism 
> in {{FlinkKafkaConsumer}} is also being blocked of progressing watermarks 
> when a partition is idle. The watermark of idle partitions is always 
> {{Long.MIN_VALUE}}, therefore the overall min watermark across all partitions 
> of a consumer subtask will never proceed.
> It's normally not a common case to have Kafka partitions not producing any 
> data, but it'll probably be good to handle this as well. I think we should 
> have a localized solution similar to FLINK-5017 for the per-partition 
> watermarks in {{AbstractFetcher}}.



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