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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_r102897911
--- Diff:
flink-connectors/flink-connector-kafka-0.9/src/test/java/org/apache/flink/streaming/connectors/kafka/Kafka09FetcherTest.java
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@@ -422,6 +429,99 @@ public void run() {
assertFalse("fetcher threads did not properly finish",
sourceContext.isStillBlocking());
}
+ @Test
+ public void testRichDeserializationSchema() throws Exception {
--- End diff --
I think we should enhance this test to test the behaviour with multiple
`collect`s per record also.
> DeserializationSchema should handle zero or more outputs for every input
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>
> 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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