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Status: Resolved
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Resolution: Duplicate
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Description
Today we have a event-time based flow control mechanism in order to synchronize multiple input streams in a best effort manner:
http://docs.confluent.io/3.0.0/streams/architecture.html#flow-control-with-timestamps
However, there are some use cases where users would like to have finer control of the input streams, for example, with two input streams, one of them always reading from offset 0 upon (re)-starting, and the other reading for log end offset.
Today we only have one consumer config "offset.auto.reset" to control that behavior, which means all streams are read either from "earliest" or "latest".
We should consider how to improve this settings to allow users have finer control over these frameworks.
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A finer flow control could also be used to allow for populating a KTable (with an "initial" state) before starting the actual processing (this feature was ask for in the mailing list multiple times already). Even if it is quite hard to define, when the initial populating phase should end, this might still be useful. There would be the following possibilities:
1) an initial fixed time period for populating
(it might be hard for a user to estimate the correct value)
2) an "idle" period, ie, if no update to a KTable for a certain time is
done, we consider it as populated
3) a timestamp cut off point, ie, all records with an older timestamp
belong to the initial populating phase
4) a throughput threshold, ie, if the populating frequency falls below
the threshold, the KTable is considered "finished"
5) maybe something else ??
The API might look something like this
KTable table = builder.table("topic", 1000); // populate the table without reading any other topics until see one record with timestamp 1000.
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KAFKA-4113 Allow KTable bootstrap
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