[GitHub] [kafka] vvcephei commented on a change in pull request #10731: KAFKA-12815: Update JavaDocs of ValueTransformerWithKey

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vvcephei commented on a change in pull request #10731:
URL: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/10731#discussion_r644196594



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File path: streams/src/main/java/org/apache/kafka/streams/kstream/ValueTransformerWithKey.java
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@@ -75,14 +75,20 @@
     void init(final ProcessorContext context);
 
     /**
-     * Transform the given [key and ]value to a new value.
+     * Transform the given [key and] value to a new value.
      * Additionally, any {@link StateStore} that is {@link KStream#transformValues(ValueTransformerWithKeySupplier, String...)
      * attached} to this operator can be accessed and modified arbitrarily (cf.
      * {@link ProcessorContext#getStateStore(String)}).
      * <p>
-     * Note, that using {@link ProcessorContext#forward(Object, Object)} or
+     * Note that using {@link ProcessorContext#forward(Object, Object)} or
      * {@link ProcessorContext#forward(Object, Object, To)} is not allowed within {@code transform} and
      * will result in an {@link StreamsException exception}.
+     * <p>
+     * Note that if a {@code ValueTransformerWithKey} is used in a {@link KTable#transformValues(ValueTransformerWithKeySupplier, String...)}
+     * (or any other overload of {@code KTable#transformValues(...)}) operation,
+     * then the provided {@link ProcessorContext} from {@link #init(ProcessorContext)}
+     * does not guarantee that all context information will be available when {@code transform()}
+     * is executed.

Review comment:
       All I was trying to do was characterize why the context information might be missing. If there are _no_ out-of-band operations, then there should never be missing context.




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