Github user rdblue commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/20386#discussion_r164907626
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sql/core/src/main/java/org/apache/spark/sql/sources/v2/streaming/writer/StreamWriter.java
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@@ -32,40 +32,44 @@
@InterfaceStability.Evolving
public interface StreamWriter extends DataSourceWriter {
/**
- * Commits this writing job for the specified epoch with a list of
commit messages. The commit
- * messages are collected from successful data writers and are produced
by
- * {@link DataWriter#commit()}.
+ * Commits this writing job for the specified epoch.
*
- * If this method fails (by throwing an exception), this writing job is
considered to have been
- * failed, and the execution engine will attempt to call {@link
#abort(WriterCommitMessage[])}.
+ * When this method is called, the number of commit messages added by
+ * {@link #add(WriterCommitMessage)} equals to the number of input data
partitions.
--- End diff --
What does this mean? It isn't clear to me what "the number of input
partitions" means, or why it isn't obvious that it is equal to the number of
pending `WriterCommitMessage` instances passed to add.
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