Have you tried it. I don't think it is possible because in the coordinator you specify no. of partitions. And in the emit function you give the batchoutputcollector and the partition no. as parameters so a batch has tuples from a single partition, that is my understanding.
On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 5:49 AM, Ashok Gupta <[email protected]>wrote: > I think it can. That is where the coordinator comes in picture. > Coordinator defines the parameters of a batch and emitters do the job of > emitting the sub portions of batch. > > > > > > On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 12:50 PM, Abhishek Bhattacharjee < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Are you sure that a batch can consist of tuples from different partitions >> ? >> I am just asking I am not sure , if it can then your question seems to be >> valid else it is not valid anymore :-) >> >> >> On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 7:42 AM, Ashok Gupta <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I have theoretical question about the guarantees >>> OpaqueKafkaTridentKafkaSpout provides. I would like to take an example to >>> illustrate the question I have. >>> >>> Suppose a batch with txId 10 has tuple t1, t2, t3, t4 and they >>> respectively come from the kafka partition p1,p2,p3,p4. When this batch is >>> played for the very first time it failed processing however the commit >>> happen for tuples t3 in the database while it did not happen for the tuples >>> t1,t2,t4. Since the batch failed, it is expected that the metadata in the >>> zookeeper is not going to be updated i.e. it will not assume the offsets as >>> committed for p1,p2,p3,p4. It is expected that the batch will be replayed, >>> however, suppose before it gets replayed the kafka partition p3 goes down. >>> What happens now? I understand that another batch with same transaction id >>> containing t1, t2, t4 may be replayed, however since p3 is down, t3 won’t >>> be replayed again. Since t3 is not replayed again, even if the batch >>> succeeds on replay the offsets for the p3 don’t get updated in the >>> zookeeper. That is all fine as long fault tolerance and opaque behavior is >>> concerned. >>> >>> My concern is more around what happens when partition p3 is back up >>> again and the spout starts reading data from the last offset it committed >>> successfully. Since from partition p3, tuple t3 is again going to be read >>> and it is certainly going to be in a batch with some txId > 10 (say 19) it >>> is going to be applied in the state again. This apparently violates the >>> exactly once semantics. >>> >>> Is the concern genuine or am I missing something? >>> Regards >>> -- >>> Ashok Gupta, >>> (+1) 361-522-2172 >>> San Jose, CA >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> *Abhishek Bhattacharjee* >> *Pune Institute of Computer Technology* >> > > > > -- > Ashok Gupta, > (+1) 361-522-2172 > San Jose, CA > -- *Abhishek Bhattacharjee* *Pune Institute of Computer Technology*
