[jira] [Created] (FLINK-7407) Assumption of partition id strict contiguity is too naive in Kafka consumer's AbstractPartitionDiscoverer

["Tzu-Li (Gordon) Tai (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Tzu-Li (Gordon) Tai created FLINK-7407:
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             Summary: Assumption of partition id strict contiguity is too naive in Kafka consumer's AbstractPartitionDiscoverer
                 Key: FLINK-7407
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-7407
             Project: Flink
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: Kafka Connector
            Reporter: Tzu-Li (Gordon) Tai
             Fix For: 1.4.0


In the Kafka Consumer's {{AbstractPartitionDiscoverer}}, for partition discovery, already discovered partitions are tracked with the following map:
```
Map<String, Integer> topicsToLargestDiscoveredPartitionId
```

Simply put, on each discovery attempt's metadata fetch, all partition ids of a given topic that are smaller than the largest seen id will be ignored and not assigned. This approach lies on the assumption that fetched partition ids of a single topic are always strictly contiguous starting from 0.

This assumption may be too naive, in that partitions which were temporarily unavailable at the time of a discovery would be shadowed by available partitions with larger ids, and from then on would be left unassigned.

We should redesign how the `AbstractPartitionDiscoverer` tracks discovered partitions by not relying on the contiguity assumption, and also add test cases for non-contiguous fetched partition ids.



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