[jira] [Created] (FLINK-5583) Support flexible error handling in the Kafka consumer

["Haohui Mai (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Haohui Mai created FLINK-5583:
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             Summary: Support flexible error handling in the Kafka consumer
                 Key: FLINK-5583
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-5583
             Project: Flink
          Issue Type: Improvement
            Reporter: Haohui Mai
            Assignee: Haohui Mai


We found that it is valuable to allow the applications to handle errors and exceptions in the Kafka consumer in order to build a robust application in production.

The context is the following:

(1) We have schematized, Avro records flowing through Kafka.
(2) The decoder implements the DeserializationSchema to decode the records.
(3) Occasionally there are corrupted records (e.g., schema issues). The streaming pipeline might want to bail out (which is the current behavior) or to skip the corrupted records depending on the applications.

Two options are available:

(1) Have a variant of DeserializationSchema to return a FlatMap like structure as suggested in FLINK-3679.
(2) Allow the applications to catch and handle the exception by exposing some APIs that are similar to the {{ExceptionProxy}}.

Thoughts?



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