[jira] [Commented] (FLINK-6923) Kafka connector needs to expose information about in-flight record in AbstractFetcher base class

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ASF GitHub Bot commented on FLINK-6923:
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Github user aljoscha commented on the issue:

    https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/4149
  
    Just a quick comment: without a test or a very explicit comment about why these fields are there they might get "fixed away" in the future by someone who notices that there are unused fields.


> Kafka connector needs to expose information about in-flight record in AbstractFetcher base class
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: FLINK-6923
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-6923
>             Project: Flink
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Kafka Connector
>            Reporter: Zhenzhong Xu
>            Assignee: Zhenzhong Xu
>            Priority: Minor
>
> We have a use case where we have our custom Fetcher implementation that extends AbstractFetcher base class. We need to periodically get current in flight (in processing) records' partition and offset information. 
> This can be easily exposed in AbstractFetcher class.



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