Hi,
I agree, this looks like a bug. Can you tell us your exact configuration of the
state backend, e.g. if you are using incremental checkpoints or not. Are you
using the local recovery feature? Are you restarting the job from a checkpoint
or a savepoint? Can you provide logs for both the job that failed and the
restarted job?
Best,
Stefan
> Am 14.05.2018 um 13:00 schrieb Juho Autio <juho.au...@rovio.com>:
>
> We have a Flink streaming job (1.5-SNAPSHOT) that uses timers to clear old
> state. After restoring state from a checkpoint, it seems like a timer had
> been restored, but not the data that was expected to be in a related MapState
> if such timer has been added.
>
> The way I see this is that there's a bug, either of these:
> - The writing of timers & map states to Flink state is not synchronized (or
> maybe there are no such guarantees by design?)
> - Flink may restore a checkpoint that is actually corrupted/incomplete
>
> Our code (simplified):
>
> private MapState<String, String> mapState;
>
> public void processElement(..) {
> mapState.put("lastUpdated", ctx.timestamp().toString());
> ctx.timerService().registerEventTimeTimer(ctx.timestamp() +
> stateRetentionMillis);
> }
>
> public void onTimer(long timestamp, OnTimerContext ctx, ..) {
> long lastUpdated = Long.parseLong(mapState.get("lastUpdated"));
> if (timestamp >= lastUpdated + stateRetentionMillis) {
> mapState.clear();
> }
> }
>
> Normally this "just works". As you can see, it shouldn't be possible that
> "lastUpdated" doesn't exist in state if timer was registered and onTimer gets
> called.
>
> However, after restoring state from a checkpoint, the job kept failing with
> this error:
>
> Caused by: java.lang.NumberFormatException: null
> at java.lang.Long.parseLong(Long.java:552)
> at java.lang.Long.parseLong(Long.java:631)
> at ..EnrichEventProcessFunction.onTimer(EnrichEventProcessFunction.java:136)
> ..
>
> So apparently onTimer was called but lastUpdated wasn't found in the MapState.
>
> The background for restoring state in this case is not entirely clean. There
> was an OS level issue "Too many open files" after running a job for ~11 days.
> To fix that, we replaced the cluster with a new one and launched the Flink
> job again. State was successfully restored from the latest checkpoint that
> had been created by the "problematic execution". Now, I'm assuming that if
> the state wouldn't have been created successfully, restoring wouldn't succeed
> either – correct? This is just to rule out that the issue with state didn't
> happen because the checkpoint files were somehow corrupted due to the Too
> many open files problem.
>
> Thank you all for your continued support!
>
> P.S. I would be very much interested to hear if there's some cleaner way to
> achieve this kind of TTL for keyed state in Flink.
