[SPARK-20168] Enable kinesis to start stream from Initial position specified by a timestamp

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.1.0
• Fix Version/s: 2.4.0
• Component/s: DStreams
• Labels: kinesis streaming
• Assignee: Yash Sharma
• Reporter: Yash Sharma
• Created: 31/Mar/17 04:46
• Updated: 04/Sep/18 11:04
• Resolved: 12/Jul/18 17:05

Description

Kinesis client can resume from a specified timestamp while creating a stream. We should have option to pass a timestamp in config to allow kinesis to resume from the given timestamp.

Have started initial work and will be posting a PR after I test the patch -
https://github.com/yssharma/spark/commit/11269abf8b2a533a1b10ceee80ac2c3a2a80c4e8

Issue Links

• links to: [Github] Pull Request #18029 (yssharma)
• links to: [Github] Pull Request #21541 (yashs360)