[jira] [Commented] (FLINK-6352) FlinkKafkaConsumer should support to use timestamp to set up start offset

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ASF GitHub Bot commented on FLINK-6352:
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Github user tzulitai commented on the issue:

    https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/3915
  
    @zjureel just so you know, I'm currently a bit busy with other critical bugs in the Kafka consumer.
    Please bear with me a little bit more ..


> FlinkKafkaConsumer should support to use timestamp to set up start offset
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: FLINK-6352
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-6352
>             Project: Flink
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Kafka Connector
>            Reporter: Fang Yong
>            Assignee: Fang Yong
>             Fix For: 1.4.0
>
>
>     Currently "auto.offset.reset" is used to initialize the start offset of FlinkKafkaConsumer, and the value should be earliest/latest/none. This method can only let the job comsume the beginning or the most recent data, but can not specify the specific offset of Kafka began to consume. 
>     So, there should be a configuration item (such as "flink.source.start.time" and the format is "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss") that allows user to configure the initial offset of Kafka. The action of "flink.source.start.time" is as follows:
> 1) job start from checkpoint / savepoint
>   a> offset of partition can be restored from checkpoint/savepoint,  "flink.source.start.time" will be ignored.
>   b> there's no checkpoint/savepoint for the partition (For example, this partition is newly increased), the "flink.kafka.start.time" will be used to initialize the offset of the partition    
> 2) job has no checkpoint / savepoint, the "flink.source.start.time" is used to initialize the offset of the kafka
>   a> the "flink.source.start.time" is valid, use it to set the offset of kafka
>   b> the "flink.source.start.time" is out-of-range, the same as it does currently with no initial offset, get kafka's current offset and start reading



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