Status
Current state: "Under Discussion"
Discussion thread: [DISCUSS] KIP-439: Deprecate Interface WindowStoreIterator
JIRA:
Released: 2.4
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Motivation
The window and session store interfaces have confusing method names and return types:
- The `ReadOnlyWindowStore` interface has multiple methods to `fetch()` data. However, the return types are mixed up. Two methods return `WindowStoreIterator` while all others return `KeyValueIterator`.
- The `ReadOnlyWindowStore` interface has method `fetch()`, `fetchAll()`, and `all()` that all do range queries with different parameters.
- The `ReadOnlySessionStore` interface has `fetch()` method while the `SessionStore` interface has `findSession()` methods that all do range queries with different parameters
- The `WindStore#fetch(K, long)` and `SessionStore#fetchSession(k, long, long)` return a single value of a stored window or session but don't do a range query.
We should align the return types and method nodes of both interfaces to get a unified API.
Additionally, the provided metrics with name `fetch` is used for all above mentioned methods (ie, implicit roll-up) making it hard to reason about the metrics.
Public Interfaces
We propose to deprecate interface `WindowStoreIterator` and the following methods. Furthermore, new `range(...)` and `get()` methods are added to replace existing ones.
package org.apache.kafka.streams.state; @Deprecate public interface WindowStoreIterator<V> extends KeyValueIterator<Long, V>, Closeable; public interface ReadOnlyWindowStore<K, V> { // already deprecated (cf. KIP-358) @Deprecate WindowStoreIterator<V> fetch(K key, long timeFrom, long timeTo); @Deprecate KeyValueIterator<Windowed<K>, V> fetch(K from, K to, long timeFrom, long timeTo); @Deprecate KeyValueIterator<Windowed<K>, V> fetchAll(long timeFrom, long timeTo); // newly deprecated @Deprecate V fetch(K key, long time); @Deprecate WindowStoreIterator<V> fetch(K key, Instant from, Instant to) throws IllegalArgumentException; @Deprecate KeyValueIterator<Windowed<K>, V> fetch(K from, K to, Instant fromTime, Instant toTime); @Deprecate KeyValueIterator<Windowed<K>, V> fetchAll(Instant from, Instant to) throws IllegalArgumentException; @Deprecate KeyValueIterator<Windowed<K>, V> all(); // new V get(K key, long windowStartTime); KeyValueIterator<Windowed<K>, V> range(K key, Instant from, Instant to) throws IllegalArgumentException; KeyValueIterator<Windowed<K>, V> range(K from, K to, Instant fromTime, Instant toTime); KeyValueIterator<Windowed<K>, V> range(Instant from, Instant to) throws IllegalArgumentException; KeyValueIterator<Windowed<K>, V> range(); } // note: `WindowStore` does not deprecate overloads with primitive types // hence, we need to deprecate them now, and add corresponding `range()` methods public interface WindowStore<K, V> { // deprecate @Deprecate WindowStoreIterator<V> fetch(K key, long timeFrom, long timeTo); @Deprecate WindowStoreIterator<V> fetch(final K key, final Instant from, final Instant to); @Deprecate KeyValueIterator<Windowed<K>, V> fetch(K from, K to, long timeFrom, long timeTo); @Deprecate KeyValueIterator<Windowed<K>, V> fetch(final K from, final K to, final Instant fromTime, final Instant toTime); @Deprecate KeyValueIterator<Windowed<K>, V> fetchAll(long timeFrom, long timeTo); @Deprecate KeyValueIterator<Windowed<K>, V> fetchAll(final Instant from, final Instant to) ; // new KeyValueIterator<Windowed<K>, V> range(K key, long timeFrom, long timeTo); KeyValueIterator<Windowed<K>, V> range(final K key, final Instant from, final Instant to); KeyValueIterator<Windowed<K>, V> range(K from, K to, long timeFrom, long timeTo); KeyValueIterator<Windowed<K>, V> range(final K from, final K to, final Instant fromTime, final Instant toTime); KeyValueIterator<Windowed<K>, V> range(long timeFrom, long timeTo); KeyValueIterator<Windowed<K>, V> range(final Instant from, final Instant to) ; } public interface ReadOnlySessionStore { // deprecated @Deprecate KeyValueIterator<Windowed<K>, AGG> fetch(final K key); @Deprecate KeyValueIterator<Windowed<K>, AGG> fetch(final K from, final K to); // added KeyValueIterator<Windowed<K>, AGG> range(final K key); KeyValueIterator<Windowed<K>, AGG> range(final K from, final K to); } public interface SessionStore { // deprecated @Deprecate KeyValueIterator<Windowed<K>, AGG> findSessions(final K key, final long earliestSessionEndTime, final long latestSessionStartTime); @Deprecate KeyValueIterator<Windowed<K>, AGG> findSessions(final K keyFrom, final K keyTo, final long earliestSessionEndTime, final long latestSessionStartTime); @Deprecate AGG fetchSession(final K key, final long startTime, final long endTime); // added KeyValueIterator<Windowed<K>, AGG> range(final K key, final long earliestSessionEndTime, final long latestSessionStartTime); @Deprecate KeyValueIterator<Windowed<K>, AGG> range(final K keyFrom, final K keyTo, final long earliestSessionEndTime, final long latestSessionStartTime); @Deprecate AGG get(final K key, final long startTime, final long endTime); } // Metrics: kafka.streams type = stream-[storeType]-metrics client-id = [thread ID] task-id = [task ID] [storeType]-id = [store name] level = DEBUG // deprecated: [store-type] = rocksdb-window-state / in-memory-window-state / rocksdb-session-state / in-memory-session-state name = fetch-latency-avg name = fetch-latency-max name = fetch-rate name = fetch-total // new [store-type] = rocksdb-window-state / in-memory-window-state name = get-latency-avg name = get-latency-max name = get-rate name = get-total name = range-single-key-time-range-latency-avg name = range-single-key-time-range-latency-max name = range-single-key-time-range-rate name = range-single-key-time-range-total name = range-key-and-time-latency-avg name = range-key-and-time-latency-max name = range-key-and-time-rate name = range-key-and-time-total name = range-time-latency-avg name = range-time-latency-max name = range-time-rate name = range-time-total name = range-all-latency-avg name = range-all-latency-max name = range-all-rate name = range-all-total [store-type] = rocksdb-session-state / in-memory-session-state name = range-key-latency-avg name = range-key-latency-max name = range-key-rate name = range-key-total name = range-single-key-time-range-latency-avg name = range-single-key-time-range-latency-max name = range-single-key-time-range-rate name = range-single-key-time-range-total name = range-single-key-latency-avg name = range-single-key-latency-max name = range-single-key-rate name = range-single-key-total name = range-key-and-time-latency-avg name = range-key-and-time-latency-max name = range-key-and-time-rate name = range-key-and-time-total name = get-latency-avg name = get-latency-max name = get-rate name = get-total
Proposed Changes
We propose to replace `WindowStoreIterator` with `KeyValueIterator` as return type for all range query methods. Additionally, the return type should be changed to `Windowed<K>` key type instead of returning only a `Long` that encoded the window-start timestamp. For this, the `WindowStoreIterator` interface and the corresponding `fetch()` methods are deprecated and new methods with new return types are added.
Furthermore, all methods returning an Iterator should have the same name (`range`), while method that don't return an Iterator should have a different name (`get`).
Additionally, we want to split up metrics to be able to track each method call independently. At the moment, there is a `fetch` metric that is used by all methods called `fetch()/fetchAll()/all()/findSession()` independent of their parameter list. We split the existing `fetch` metric into fine grained metrics per method overload.
Compatibility, Deprecation, and Migration Plan
Because we only deprecate interfaces/methods but don't change any other code this change is backward compatible. Calls to deprecated methods are redirected to new methods and the existing `fetch` metric is still recorded unmodified.
Test Plan
N/A
Rejected Alternatives
N/A