How to check if a MapState is empty in flink 1.8 - apache-flink

I have an application where I am reading all the data from a DB for the first time and add it to MapState. Here is my RichCoFlatMapFunction
private transient MapState<String, Record> mapState;
#Override
public void open(Configuration parameters) throws Exception {
mapState = getRuntimeContext().getMapState(new MapStateDescriptor<String, Record>("recordState",
TypeInformation.of(new TypeHint<String>(){}), TypeInformation.of(new TypeHint<Record>() {})));
}
#Override
public void flatMap1(Record record, Collector<OutputRecord> collector) throws Exception {
readForFirstTime();
mapState.put(item.getId(), item);
}
#Override
public void flatMap2(Item item, Collector<OutputRecord> collector) throws Exception {
readForFirstTime();
Record record = mapState.get(item.getId);
System.out.println("Item arrived at time:"+ item.getTimestamp() +
". Record at the exact same time:" + record.toString());
}
private void readForFirstTime() {
// I need a mechanism here to detect if recordState is empty
// then only listAllFromDB
for(Record record: listAllFromDB) {
mapState.put(record.getId(), record);
}
}
So when I start my application from snapshot, I assume MapState will contain data and I do not want to read from DB. How can I check if the MapState is empty or contains data ?

If I understand correctly, you want to load database data only once, usually you do this at the open(.) method. Or you can use another MapState to the database data and use the MapState::isEmpty().

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How to join a two kafka streams in flink (1 being running and 2nd being static with only few records like a master table)

I want to enrich my 1st stream with the help of the 2nd stream like the flowing records keep joining with the 2nd stream like a lookup which I want to keep in memory forever like a table.
Any code example or any flink API I could use which would fit in this use-case.
You can find an example of a connected stream with a shared state in the Ververica training page: https://training.ververica.com (Stateful Stream Processing, Slide 13)
public static class ControlFunction extends KeyedCoProcessFunction<String, String, String, String> {
private ValueState<Boolean> blocked;
#Override
public void open(Configuration config) {
blocked = getRuntimeContext().getState(new ValueStateDescriptor<>("blocked", Boolean.class));
}
​
#Override
public void processElement1(String controlValue, Context context, Collector<String> out) throws Exception {
blocked.update(Boolean.TRUE);
}
#Override
public void processElement2(String dataValue, Context context, Collector<String> out) throws Exception {
if (blocked.value() == null) {
out.collect(dataValue);
}
}
}
public class StreamingJob {
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
StreamExecutionEnvironment env = StreamExecutionEnvironment.getExecutionEnvironment();
DataStream<String> control = env.fromElements("DROP", "IGNORE").keyBy(x -> x);
DataStream<String> data = env
.fromElements("Flink", "DROP", "Forward", "IGNORE")
.keyBy(x -> x);
control
.connect(data)
.process(new ControlFunction())
.print();
env.execute();
}
}
In your case, you would need to keep the contents of the 2nd stream in the KeyedCoProcessFunction state and have the 1st stream read from the state to join it with its elements. You'll need to think how to key your streams and what kind of state to use, but that would be the main idea.

Flink KeyedProcessFunction integrating anonymous methods

I am attempting to write a keyedProcessFunction, the code looks like this below:
DataStream<Tuple2<Long, Integer>> busyMachinesPerWindow = busyMachines
// group by timestamp (window end)
.keyBy(event -> event.getField(1))
.process(new KeyedProcessFunction<Tuple1<Long>, Tuple3<Long, Long, Long>, Tuple2<Long, Integer>>() {
private ValueState<Integer> state;
#Override
public void open(Configuration config) throws IOException {
// initialize the state descriptors here
state = getRuntimeContext().getState(new ValueStateDescriptor<>("machine-counts", Integer.class));
if (state.value() == null) {
state.update(0);
}
}
#Override
public void processElement(Tuple3<Long, Long, Long> inWindow, Context ctx, Collector<Tuple2<Long, Integer>> out) throws Exception {
if (state.value() != null) {
state.update(state.value() + 1);
} else {
state.update(1);
}
ctx.timerService().registerEventTimeTimer(inWindow.f1);
}
#Override
public void onTimer(long timestamp, OnTimerContext ctx, Collector<Tuple2<Long, Integer>> out) throws Exception {
int counter = state.value();
state.clear();
// we can now output the window and the machine count
out.collect(new Tuple2<>(((Tuple1<Long>) ctx.getCurrentKey()).f0, counter));
}
});
However this pops up an error saying cannot derive anonymous method. I don't see what the problem is with this code. Is there some type ambiguity that I am not doing right?
One problem with this code is that you are calling state.value() and state.update(0) in the open method. This is not allowed. These methods can only be used in processElement and in onTimer, because only then is there a specific event being processed whose key can be used to access/update the appropriate entry in the state backend.
An instance of a KeyedProcessFunction is multiplexed across all of the keys assigned to a given task slot. The open method is called just once, at a time when there is no specific key in the runtime context, so the state cannot be accessed or updated at this time.

Flink - Memory Consumption always increasing

NOTE: As the David suggestion, I have just updated my flink project to version v1.12.3. With v1.12.3, It seems flink has done some improvements. Right now, my problem is resolved.
My current flink application runs with 48 task slots on 3 nodes. Also I am using rocksdb as state management. (I do not care about Savepoints and Checkpoint mechanism about in flink, I am just creating state which almost 5 mins ttl)
However memory consumption for all nodes are always increasing and I have to do stop flink application via stop-cluster.sh, then re-start again.
I have many keyedstreams based on the client ip address. In daily basis, millions of users are visiting my site.
Some of the keyed streams are using StateTtlConfig while others using onTimer mechanism.
My assumption about memory consumption (or leak) is that: calling the registerProcessingTimer creates an entry which holds in memory and because there are many ip addresses I will have many entries and memory consumption is always increasing ?
Should i remove onTimer solution and only using StateTtlConfig? (I am using onTimer method because in StateTtlConfig every time I update the state it also updates the ttls which creates invalid data in my application)
Examples for state managements
// EXAMPLE FOR STATETTLCONFIG
public class State1 extends KeyedProcessFunction<Tuple, ..., ...>{
private transient ValueState<Integer> state;
#Override
public void open(Configuration parameters) throws Exception{
StateTtlConfig ttlConfig = StateTtlConfig
.newBuilder(Time.minutes(2))
.setUpdateType(StateTtlConfig.UpdateType.OnCreateAndWrite)
.setStateVisibility(StateTtlConfig.StateVisibility.NeverReturnExpired)
.cleanupInBackground()
.build();
ValueStateDescriptor<Integer> valueStateDesc = new ValueStateDescriptor<Integer>(
..
);
valueStateDesc.enableTimeToLive(ttlConfig);
state = getRuntimeContext().getState(valueStateDesc);
}
#Override
public void processElement(LogObject value, Context ctx, Collector<LogObject> out) throws Exception{
Integer stateVal = valueState.value();
// do something and update state
}
}
// EXAMPLE FOR ONTIMER METHOD
public class State2 extends KeyedProcessFunction<Tuple, ..., ...> {
private transient ValueState<Integer> state;
#Override
public void open(Configuration parameters){
ValueStateDescriptor<Integer> stateDesc = new ValueStateDescriptor<>(
...;
state = getRuntimeContext().getState(stateDesc);
}
#Override
public void processElement(LogObject value, Context ctx, Collector<LogObject> out) throws Exception{
Integer stateVal = state.value();
if (stateVal == null)
{
stateVal = 0;
ctx.timerService().registerProcessingTimeTimer(value.getTimestamp() + 5 MINS);
}
stateVal ++;
// do something and update state
}
#Override
public void onTimer(long timestamp, OnTimerContext ctx, Collector<LogObject> out)
{
stateVal.clear();
}
}

How to update the Broadcast state in KeyedBroadcastProcessFunction in flink?

I am new to Flink i am doing a pattern matching using apache flink where the list of patterns are present in broadcast state and iterating through the patterns in processElements function to find the pattern matched and i am reading this patterns from a database and its a on time activity. Below is my code
MapState Descriptor and Side output stream as below
public static final MapStateDescriptor<String, String> ruleDescriptor=
new MapStateDescriptor<String, String>("RuleSet", BasicTypeInfo.STRING_TYPE_INFO,
BasicTypeInfo.STRING_TYPE_INFO);
public final static OutputTag<Tuple2<String, String>> unMatchedSideOutput =
new OutputTag<Tuple2<String, String>>(
"unmatched-side-output") {
};
Process Function and Broadcast Function as below:
#Override
public void processElement(Tuple2<String, String> inputValue, ReadOnlyContext ctx,Collector<Tuple2<String,String>> out) throws Exception {
for (Map.Entry<String, String> ruleSet: ctx.getBroadcastState(broadcast.patternRuleDescriptor).immutableEntries()) {
String ruleName = ruleSet.getKey();
//If the rule in ruleset is matched then send output to main stream and break the program
if (this.rule) {
out.collect(new Tuple2<>(inputValue.f0, inputValue.f1));
break;
}
}
// Writing output to sideout if no rule is matched
ctx.output(Output.unMatchedSideOutput, new Tuple2<>("No Rule Detected", inputValue.f1));
}
#Override
public void processBroadcastElement(Tuple2<String, String> ruleSetConditions, Context ctx, Collector<Tuple2<String,String>> out) throws Exception { ctx.getBroadcastState(broadcast.ruleDescriptor).put(ruleSetConditions.f0,
ruleSetConditions.f1);
}
Main Function as below
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
//Initiate a datastream environment
final StreamExecutionEnvironment env = StreamExecutionEnvironment.getExecutionEnvironment();
//Reads incoming data for upstream
DataStream<String> incomingSignal =
env.readTextFile(....);
//Reads the patterns available in configuration file
DataStream<String> ruleStream =
env.readTextFile();
//Generate a key,value pair of set of patterns where key is pattern name and value is pattern condition
DataStream<Tuple2<String, String>> ruleStream =
rawPatternStream.flatMap(new FlatMapFunction<String, Tuple2<String, String>>() {
#Override
public void flatMap(String ruleCondition, Collector<Tuple2<String, String>> out) throws Exception {
String rules[] = ruleCondition.split[","];
out.collect(new Tuple2<>(rules[0], rules[1]));
}
}
});
//Broadcast the patterns to all the flink operators which will be stored in flink operator memory
BroadcastStream<Tuple2<String, String>>ruleBroadcast = ruleStream.broadcast(ruleDescriptor);
/*Creating keystream based on sourceName as key */
DataStream<Tuple2<String, String>> matchSignal =
incomingSignal.map(new MapFunction<String, Tuple2<String, String>>() {
#Override
public Tuple2<String, String> map(String incomingSignal) throws Exception {
String sourceName = ingressSignal.split[","][0]
return new Tuple2<>(sourceName, incomingSignal);
}
}).keyBy(0).connect(ruleBroadcast).process(new KeyedBroadCastProcessFunction());
matchSignal.print("RuleDetected=>");
}
I have a couple of questions
1) Currently i am reading rules from a database, how can i update the broadcast state when flink job is running in cluster and if i get new set of rules from a kafka topic how can i update the broadcast state in processBroadcast method in KeyedBroadcasrProcessFunction
2)When the broadcast state is updated do we need to restart the flink job?
Please help me with above questions
The only way to either set or update broadcast state is in the processBroadcastElement method of a BroadcastProcessFunction or KeyedBroadcastProcessFunction. All you need to do is to adapt your application to stream in the rules from a streaming source, rather than reading them once from a file.
Broadcast state is a hash map. If your broadcast stream includes a new key/value pair that uses the same key as an earlier broadcast event, then the new value will replace the old one. Otherwise you'll end up with an entirely new entry.
If you use readFile with FileProcessingMode.PROCESS_CONTINUOUSLY, then every time you modify the file its entire contents will be reingested. You could use that mechanism to update your set of rules.

Apache Flink - use values from a data stream to dynamically create a streaming data source

I'm trying to build a sample application using Apache Flink that does the following:
Reads a stream of stock symbols (e.g. 'CSCO', 'FB') from a Kafka queue.
For each symbol performs a real-time lookup of current prices and streams the values for downstream processing.
* Update to original post *
I moved the map function into a separate class and do not get the run-time error message "The implementation of the MapFunction is not serializable any more. The object probably contains or references non serializable fields".
The issue I'm facing now is that the Kafka topic "stockprices" I'm trying to write the prices to is not receiving them. I'm trying to trouble-shoot and will post any updates.
public class RetrieveStockPrices {
#SuppressWarnings("serial")
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
final StreamExecutionEnvironment streamExecEnv = StreamExecutionEnvironment.getExecutionEnvironment();
streamExecEnv.setStreamTimeCharacteristic(TimeCharacteristic.IngestionTime);
Properties properties = new Properties();
properties.setProperty("bootstrap.servers", "localhost:9092");
properties.setProperty("zookeeper.connect", "localhost:2181");
properties.setProperty("group.id", "stocks");
DataStream<String> streamOfStockSymbols = streamExecEnv.addSource(new FlinkKafkaConsumer08<String>("stocksymbol", new SimpleStringSchema(), properties));
DataStream<String> stockPrice =
streamOfStockSymbols
//get unique keys
.keyBy(new KeySelector<String, String>() {
#Override
public String getKey(String trend) throws Exception {
return trend;
}
})
//collect events over a window
.window(TumblingEventTimeWindows.of(Time.seconds(60)))
//return the last event from the window...all elements are the same "Symbol"
.apply(new WindowFunction<String, String, String, TimeWindow>() {
#Override
public void apply(String key, TimeWindow window, Iterable<String> input, Collector<String> out) throws Exception {
out.collect(input.iterator().next().toString());
}
})
.map(new StockSymbolToPriceMapFunction());
streamExecEnv.execute("Retrieve Stock Prices");
}
}
public class StockSymbolToPriceMapFunction extends RichMapFunction<String, String> {
#Override
public String map(String stockSymbol) throws Exception {
final StreamExecutionEnvironment streamExecEnv = StreamExecutionEnvironment.getExecutionEnvironment();
streamExecEnv.setStreamTimeCharacteristic(TimeCharacteristic.IngestionTime);
System.out.println("StockSymbolToPriceMapFunction: stockSymbol: " + stockSymbol);
DataStream<String> stockPrices = streamExecEnv.addSource(new LookupStockPrice(stockSymbol));
stockPrices.keyBy(new CustomKeySelector()).addSink(new FlinkKafkaProducer08<String>("localhost:9092", "stockprices", new SimpleStringSchema()));
return "100000";
}
private static class CustomKeySelector implements KeySelector<String, String> {
#Override
public String getKey(String arg0) throws Exception {
return arg0.trim();
}
}
}
public class LookupStockPrice extends RichSourceFunction<String> {
public String stockSymbol = null;
public boolean isRunning = true;
public LookupStockPrice(String inSymbol) {
stockSymbol = inSymbol;
}
#Override
public void open(Configuration parameters) throws Exception {
isRunning = true;
}
#Override
public void cancel() {
isRunning = false;
}
#Override
public void run(SourceFunction.SourceContext<String> ctx)
throws Exception {
String stockPrice = "0";
while (isRunning) {
//TODO: query Google Finance API
stockPrice = Integer.toString((new Random()).nextInt(100)+1);
ctx.collect(stockPrice);
Thread.sleep(10000);
}
}
}
StreamExecutionEnvironment are not indented to be used inside of operators of a streaming application. Not intended means, this is not tested and encouraged. It might work and do something, but will most likely not behave well and probably kill your application.
The StockSymbolToPriceMapFunction in your program specifies for each incoming record a completely new and independent new streaming application. However, since you do not call streamExecEnv.execute() the programs are not started and the map method returns without doing anything.
If you would call streamExecEnv.execute(), the function would start a new local Flink cluster in the workers JVM and start the application on this local Flink cluster. The local Flink instance will take a lot of the heap space and after a few clusters have been started, the worker will probably die due to an OutOfMemoryError which is not what you want to happen.

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