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  1. Beam
  2. BEAM-14518

Support for reading Kafka topics from any startReadTime in Java

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    • Bug
    • Status: Triage Needed
    • P2
    • Resolution: Unresolved
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    • io-java-kafka
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    Description

      https://github.com/apache/beam/blob/fd8546355523f67eaddc22249606fdb982fe4938/sdks/java/io/kafka/src/main/java/org/apache/beam/sdk/io/kafka/ConsumerSpEL.java#L180-L198

       

      Right now the 'startReadTime' config for KafkaIO.Read looks up an offset in every topic partition that is newer or equal to that timestamp. The problem is that if we use a timestamp that is so new, that we don't have any newer/equal message in the partition. In that case the code fails with an exception. Meanwhile in certain cases it makes no sense as we could actually make it work.

      If we don't get an offset from calling `consumer.offsetsForTimes`, we should call `endOffsets`, and use the returned offset + 1. That is actually the offset we will have to read next time.

      Even if `endOffsets` can't return an offset we could use 0 as the offset to read from.

       

      Am I missing something here? Is it okay to contribute this?

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            bnemeth Balázs Németh
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