Sudarshan Kadambi created SPARK-10320:
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Summary: Support new topic subscriptions without requiring restart
of the streaming context
Key: SPARK-10320
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-10320
Project: Spark
Issue Type: New Feature
Components: Streaming
Reporter: Sudarshan Kadambi
Spark Streaming lacks the ability to subscribe to newer topics or unsubscribe
to current ones once the streaming context has been started. Restarting the
streaming context increases the latency of update handling.
Consider a streaming application subscribed to n topics. Let's say 1 of the
topics is no longer needed in streaming analytics and hence should be dropped.
We could do this by stopping the streaming context, removing that topic from
the topic list and restarting the streaming context. Since with some DStreams
such as DirectKafkaStream, the per-partition offsets are maintained by Spark,
we should be able to resume uninterrupted (I think?) from where we left off
with a minor delay. However, in instances where expensive state initialization
(from an external datastore) may be needed for datasets published to all
topics, before streaming updates can be applied to it, it is more convenient to
only subscribe or unsubcribe to the incremental changes to the topic list.
Without such a feature, updates go unprocessed for longer than they need to be
affecting QoS.
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