[FLINK-3515] Make the "file monitoring source" exactly-once

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Duplicate
• Affects Version/s: 0.10.2
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Stephan Ewen
• Created: 25/Feb/16 18:18
• Updated: 28/Feb/19 11:15
• Resolved: 11/Jul/16 19:52

Description

The stream source that watches directories for changes is currently not "exactly-once".

To make it exactly once, the source (that generates files to be read) and the flatMap (that reads the files) need to keep track of where they were at the point of a checkpoint.

Assuming that files do not change after creation (HDFS / S3 style), we can make this the following way:

• The source can track the files it already emitted downstream via file creation/modification timestamp, assuming that new files always get newer timestamps.

• The flatMappers need to always store the path of their current file fragment, plus the byte offset where they were within that file split.

Issue Links

• duplicates: FLINK-2314 Make Streaming File Sources Persistent