com.google.cloud.dataflow.sdk.io

Class UnboundedSource<OutputT,CheckpointMarkT extends UnboundedSource.CheckpointMark>

java.lang.Object

com.google.cloud.dataflow.sdk.io.Source<OutputT>

com.google.cloud.dataflow.sdk.io.UnboundedSource<OutputT,CheckpointMarkT>

Type Parameters:

OutputT - Type of records output by this source.

CheckpointMarkT - Type of checkpoint marks used by the readers of this source.

All Implemented Interfaces:

Serializable

public abstract class UnboundedSource<OutputT,CheckpointMarkT extends UnboundedSource.CheckpointMark>
extends Source<OutputT>

A Source that reads an unbounded amount of input and, because of that, supports some additional operations such as checkpointing, watermarks, and record ids.

• Checkpointing allows sources to not re-read the same data again in the case of failures.
• Watermarks allow for downstream parts of the pipeline to know up to what point in time the data is complete.
• Record ids allow for efficient deduplication of input records; many streaming sources do not guarantee that a given record will only be read a single time.

See Window and Trigger for more information on timestamps and watermarks.

See Also:

Serialized Form

Nested Class Summary

Nested Classes

Modifier and Type	Class and Description
static interface	UnboundedSource.CheckpointMark A marker representing the progress and state of an UnboundedSource.UnboundedReader.
static class	UnboundedSource.UnboundedReader<OutputT> A Reader that reads an unbounded amount of input.

Nested classes/interfaces inherited from class com.google.cloud.dataflow.sdk.io.Source

Source.Reader<T>

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
UnboundedSource()

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
abstract UnboundedSource.UnboundedReader<OutputT>	createReader(PipelineOptions options, CheckpointMarkT checkpointMark) Create a new UnboundedSource.UnboundedReader to read from this source, resuming from the given checkpoint if present.
abstract List<? extends UnboundedSource<OutputT,CheckpointMarkT>>	generateInitialSplits(int desiredNumSplits, PipelineOptions options) Returns a list of UnboundedSource objects representing the instances of this source that should be used when executing the workflow.
abstract Coder<CheckpointMarkT>	getCheckpointMarkCoder() Returns a Coder for encoding and decoding the checkpoints for this source, or null if the checkpoints do not need to be durably committed.
boolean	requiresDeduping() Returns whether this source requires explicit deduping.

Methods inherited from class com.google.cloud.dataflow.sdk.io.Source

getDefaultOutputCoder, validate

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

UnboundedSource

public UnboundedSource()

Method Detail

generateInitialSplits

public abstract List<? extends UnboundedSource<OutputT,CheckpointMarkT>> generateInitialSplits(int desiredNumSplits,
                                                                                               PipelineOptions options)
                                                                                        throws Exception

Returns a list of UnboundedSource objects representing the instances of this source that should be used when executing the workflow. Each split should return a separate partition of the input data.

For example, for a source reading from a growing directory of files, each split could correspond to a prefix of file names.

Some sources are not splittable, such as reading from a single TCP stream. In that case, only a single split should be returned.

Some data sources automatically partition their data among readers. For these types of inputs, n identical replicas of the top-level source can be returned.

The size of the returned list should be as close to desiredNumSplits as possible, but does not have to match exactly. A low number of splits will limit the amount of parallelism in the source.

Throws:

Exception

createReader

public abstract UnboundedSource.UnboundedReader<OutputT> createReader(PipelineOptions options,
                                                                      @Nullable
                                                                      CheckpointMarkT checkpointMark)

Create a new UnboundedSource.UnboundedReader to read from this source, resuming from the given checkpoint if present.

getCheckpointMarkCoder

@Nullable
public abstract Coder<CheckpointMarkT> getCheckpointMarkCoder()

Returns a Coder for encoding and decoding the checkpoints for this source, or null if the checkpoints do not need to be durably committed.

requiresDeduping

public boolean requiresDeduping()

Returns whether this source requires explicit deduping.

This is needed if the underlying data source can return the same record multiple times, such a queuing system with a pull-ack model. Sources where the records read are uniquely identified by the persisted state in the CheckpointMark do not need this.