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ASF GitHub Bot commented on FLINK-3679:
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Github user tzulitai commented on a diff in the pull request:

    https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/3314#discussion_r102665687
  
    --- Diff: 
flink-connectors/flink-connector-kafka-0.8/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/streaming/connectors/kafka/internals/SimpleConsumerThread.java
 ---
    @@ -373,16 +370,28 @@ else if (partitionsRemoved) {
                                                                
keyPayload.get(keyBytes);
                                                        }
     
    -                                                   final T value = 
deserializer.deserialize(keyBytes, valueBytes, 
    -                                                                   
currentPartition.getTopic(), currentPartition.getPartition(), offset);
    -                                                   
    -                                                   if 
(deserializer.isEndOfStream(value)) {
    -                                                           // remove 
partition from subscribed partitions.
    -                                                           
partitionsIterator.remove();
    -                                                           continue 
partitionsLoop;
    -                                                   }
    -                                                   
    -                                                   owner.emitRecord(value, 
currentPartition, offset);
    +                                                   final Collector<T> 
collector = new Collector<T>() {
    --- End diff --
    
    Moving the discussion back a bit:
    
    I don't think this implementation works correctly with exactly-once and how 
we checkpoint the consumer's partition offset state.
    
    The problem is that, in `emitRecord`, we will be updating the offset state. 
In the changes here, what this means is that we will be considering a record to 
have been fully processed as soon as the collector collects something.
    
    For example, lets say the serializer will call `collect` 3 times for 
elements deserialized from record R before `deserialize` returns. R has offset 
100L. As soon as the first element is collected, the state will be updated to 
`finished processing offset 100L`. If now checkpointing is triggered, and we 
use that checkpoint to restore, we will be skipping the remaining 2 elements 
that were yet to be collected.
    Once 
    
    



> DeserializationSchema should handle zero or more outputs for every input
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: FLINK-3679
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-3679
>             Project: Flink
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: DataStream API, Kafka Connector
>            Reporter: Jamie Grier
>            Assignee: Haohui Mai
>
> There are a couple of issues with the DeserializationSchema API that I think 
> should be improved.  This request has come to me via an existing Flink user.
> The main issue is simply that the API assumes that there is a one-to-one 
> mapping between input and outputs.  In reality there are scenarios where one 
> input message (say from Kafka) might actually map to zero or more logical 
> elements in the pipeline.
> Particularly important here is the case where you receive a message from a 
> source (such as Kafka) and say the raw bytes don't deserialize properly.  
> Right now the only recourse is to throw IOException and therefore fail the 
> job.  
> This is definitely not good since bad data is a reality and failing the job 
> is not the right option.  If the job fails we'll just end up replaying the 
> bad data and the whole thing will start again.
> Instead in this case it would be best if the user could just return the empty 
> set.
> The other case is where one input message should logically be multiple output 
> messages.  This case is probably less important since there are other ways to 
> do this but in general it might be good to make the 
> DeserializationSchema.deserialize() method return a collection rather than a 
> single element.
> Maybe we need to support a DeserializationSchema variant that has semantics 
> more like that of FlatMap.



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