Beam streaming pipeline does not write files to bucket

问题

UI have a python streaming pipeline on GCP Dataflow that reads thousands of messages from a PubSub, like this:

    with beam.Pipeline(options=pipeline_options) as p:
      lines = p | "read" >> ReadFromPubSub(topic=str(job_options.inputTopic))
      lines = lines | "decode" >> beam.Map(decode_message)
      lines = lines | "Parse" >> beam.Map(parse_json)
      lines = lines | beam.WindowInto(beam.window.FixedWindows(1*60))
      lines = lines | "Add device id key" >> beam.Map(lambda elem: (elem.get('id'), elem))
      lines = lines | "Group by key" >> beam.GroupByKey()
      lines = lines | "Abandon key" >> beam.Map(flatten)
      lines | "WriteToAvro" >> beam.io.WriteToAvro(job_options.outputLocation, schema=schema, file_name_suffix='.avro', mime_type='application/x-avro')

The pipeline runs just fine, except it never produces any output. Any ideas why?

回答1:

It looks like there were a few problems with your code. First, there was some badly formatted data with regards to null/None (you fixed already) and ints/floats (called out in comments). Finally, the WriteToAvro transform cannot write unbounded PCollections. There is a work-around in which you define a new sink and use that with the WriteToFiles transform which is able to write unbounded PCollections.

Note that as of the writing of this post (2020-06-18), this method does not work with the Apache Beam Python SDK <= 2.23. This is because the Python pickler cannot deserialize a pickled Avro schema (see BEAM-6522). In this case, this forces a solution to use FastAvro instead. You can use Avro if you manually upgrade dill to >= 0.3.1.1 and Avro to >= 1.9.0, but be careful as this is currently untested.

With the caveats out of the way, here is the work-around:

from apache_beam.io.fileio import FileSink
from apache_beam.io.fileio import WriteToFiles
import fastavro

class AvroFileSink(FileSink):
    def __init__(self, schema, codec='deflate'):
        self._schema = schema
        self._codec = codec

    def open(self, fh):
        # This is called on every new bundle.
        self.writer = fastavro.write.Writer(fh, self._schema, self._codec)

    def write(self, record):
        # This is called on every element.
        self.writer.write(record)

    def flush(self):
        self.writer.flush()

This new sink is used like the following:

import apache_beam as beam

# Replace the following with your schema.
schema = fastavro.schema.parse_schema({
    'name': 'row',
    'namespace': 'test',
    'type': 'record',
    'fields': [
        {'name': 'a', 'type': 'int'},
    ],
})

# Create the sink. This will be used by the WriteToFiles transform to write
# individual elements to the Avro file.
sink = AvroFileSink(schema=schema)

with beam.Pipeline(...) as p:
    lines = p | beam.ReadFromPubSub(...)
    lines = ...

    # This is where your new sink gets used. The WriteToFiles transform takes
    # the sink and uses it to write to a directory defined by the path 
    # argument.
    lines | WriteToFiles(path=job_options.outputLocation, sink=sink)

来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/62431944/beam-streaming-pipeline-does-not-write-files-to-bucket

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