Skip to main content
Version: 2.5

Synchronize data from MySQL in real time

A Flink job reports the error Could not execute SQL statement. Reason:org.apache.flink.table.api.ValidationException: One or more required options are missing.

A possible reason is that the required configuration information is missing in multiple sets of rules, such as [table-rule.1] and [table-rule.2], in the SMT configuration file config_prod.conf.

You can check whether each set of rules, such as [table-rule.1] and [table-rule.2] is configured with the required database, table, and Flink connector information.

Flink automatically restarts failed tasks through the checkpointing mechanism and restart strategy.

For example, if you need to enable the checkpointing mechanism and use the default restart strategy, which is the fixed delay restart strategy, you can configure the following information in the configuration file flink-conf.yaml:

execution.checkpointing.interval: 300000
state.backend: filesystem
state.checkpoints.dir: file:///tmp/flink-checkpoints-directory

Parameter description:

NOTE

For more detailed parameter descriptions in Flink documentation, see Checkpointing.

  • execution.checkpointing.interval: the base time interval of checkpointing. Unit: millisecond. To enable the checkpointing mechanism, you need to set this parameter to a value greater than 0.
  • state.backend: specifies the state backend to determine how the state is represented internally, and how and where it is persisted upon checkpointing. Common values are filesystem or rocksdb. After the checkpointing mechanism is enabled, the state is persisted upon checkpoints to prevent data loss and ensure data consistency after recovery. For more information on state, see State Backends.
  • state.checkpoints.dir: the directory to which checkpoints are written to.

You can manually trigger a savepoint when stopping a Flink job (a savepoint is a consistent image of the execution state of a streaming Flink job, and is created based on the checkpointing mechanism). Later, you can restore the Flink job from the specified savepoint.

  1. Stop the Flink job with a savepoint. The following command automatically triggers a savepoint for the Flink job jobId and stops the Flink job. Additionally, you can specify a target file system directory to store the savepoint.

    bin/flink stop --type [native/canonical] --savepointPath [:targetDirectory] :jobId

    Parameter description:

    • jobId: You can view the Flink job ID from the Flink WebUI or by running flink list -running on the command line.
    • targetDirectory: You can specify state.savepoints.dir as the default directory for storing savepoints in the Flink configuration file flink-conf.yml. When a savepoint is triggered, the savepoint is stored in this default directory and you do not need to specify a directory .
    state.savepoints.dir: [file:// or hdfs://]/home/user/savepoints_dir

  2. Resubmit the Flink job with the preceding savepoint specified.

    ./flink run -c com.starrocks.connector.flink.tools.ExecuteSQL -s savepoints_dir/savepoints-xxxxxxxx flink-connector-starrocks-xxxx.jar -f flink-create.all.sql