Well. Of course this is not fixing the core problem.
What I can do is extend the FixedWindows class and make sure that for my
real recorded "system latency" the values still get put into the previous
window. Or is there a smarter way to deal with this?

On Fri, Oct 2, 2020 at 4:11 PM Kaymak, Tobias <[email protected]>
wrote:

> This is what I came up with:
>
> https://gist.github.com/tkaymak/1f5eccf8633c18ab7f46f8ad01527630
>
> The first run looks okay (in my use case size and offset are the same),
> but I will need to add tests to prove my understanding of this.
>
> On Fri, Oct 2, 2020 at 12:05 PM Kaymak, Tobias <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> In chapter 4 of the Streaming Systems book by Tyler, Slava and Reuven
>> there is an example 4-6 on page 111 about custom windowing that deals with
>> UnalignedFixedWindows:
>>
>> https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/streaming-systems/9781491983867/ch04.html
>>
>> Unfortunately that example is abbreviated and the full source code is not
>> published in this repo:
>> https://github.com/takidau/streamingbook
>>
>> I am joining two Kafka Streams and I am currently windowing them by fixed
>> time intervals. However the elements in stream one ("articles") are
>> published first, then the assets for those articles are being published in
>> the "assets" topic. Articles event timestamps are therefore slightly before
>> those of assets.
>>
>> Now when doing a CoGroupByKey this can lead to a situation where an
>> article is not being processed together with its assets, as
>>
>> - the article has a timestamp of 2020-10-02T00:30:29.997Z
>> - the assets have a timestamp of 2020-10-02T00:30:30.001Z
>>
>> This is a must in my pipeline as I am relying on them to be processed
>> together - otherwise I am publishing an article without it's assets.
>>
>> My idea was therefore to apply UnalignedFixedWindows instead of fixed
>> ones to the streams to circumvent this. What I am currently missing is the
>> mergeWindows() implementation or the full source code to understand it.
>> I am currently facing a java.lang.IllegalStateException
>>
>> TimestampCombiner moved element from 2020-10-02T09:32:36.079Z to earlier
>> time 2020-10-02T09:32:03.365Z for window
>> [2020-10-02T09:31:03.366Z..2020-10-02T09:32:03.366Z)
>>
>> Which gives me the impression that I am doing something wrong or have not
>> fully understood the custom windowing topic.
>>
>> Am I on the wrong track here?
>>
>>
>>
>>

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