[MINOR] Cosmetic changes for flink

hudi-flink/src/main/java/org/apache/hudi/sink/StreamWriteFunction.java

@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@
  * <p><h2>The Semantics</h2>
  *
  * <p>The task implements exactly-once semantics by buffering the data between checkpoints. The operator coordinator
- * starts a new instant on the time line when a checkpoint triggers, the coordinator checkpoints always
+ * starts a new instant on the timeline when a checkpoint triggers, the coordinator checkpoints always
  * start before its operator, so when this function starts a checkpoint, a REQUESTED instant already exists.
  *
  * <p>The function process thread blocks data buffering after the checkpoint thread finishes flushing the existing data buffer until

hudi-flink/src/main/java/org/apache/hudi/sink/partitioner/profile/EmptyWriteProfile.java

@@ -28,11 +28,8 @@
 /**
  * WriteProfile that always return empty small files.
  *
- * <p>This write profile is used for cases:
- * i). INSERT OVERWRITE and INSERT OVERWRITE TABLE operations,
- * the existing small files are ignored because of the 'OVERWRITE' semantics;
- * ii). INSERT operation when data file merge is disabled.
- *
+ * <p>This write profile is used for INSERT OVERWRITE and INSERT OVERWRITE TABLE operations,
+ * the existing small files are ignored because of the 'OVERWRITE' semantics.
  *
  * <p>Note: assumes the index can always index log files for Flink write.
  */

hudi-flink/src/main/java/org/apache/hudi/streamer/HoodieFlinkStreamer.java

@@ -41,8 +41,9 @@
 import java.util.Properties;
 
 /**
- * An Utility which can incrementally consume data from Kafka and apply it to the target table.
- * currently, it only supports COW table and insert, upsert operation.
+ * A utility which can incrementally consume data from Kafka and apply it to the target table.
+ * It has the similar functionality with SQL data source except that the source is bind to Kafka
+ * and the format is bind to JSON.
  */
 public class HoodieFlinkStreamer {
   public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {

hudi-flink/src/main/java/org/apache/hudi/table/HoodieTableFactory.java

@@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ private void sanityCheck(Configuration conf, ResolvedSchema schema) {
   }
 
   /**
-   * Setup the config options based on the table definition, for e.g the table name, primary key.
+   * Sets up the config options based on the table definition, for e.g the table name, primary key.
    *
    * @param conf      The configuration to setup
    * @param tableName The table name

hudi-flink/src/main/java/org/apache/hudi/table/HoodieTableSource.java

@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@
 import org.apache.hudi.table.format.mor.MergeOnReadTableState;
 import org.apache.hudi.util.AvroSchemaConverter;
 import org.apache.hudi.util.ChangelogModes;
+import org.apache.hudi.util.InputFormats;
 import org.apache.hudi.util.StreamerUtil;
 
 import org.apache.avro.Schema;
@@ -48,7 +49,6 @@
 import org.apache.flink.api.common.io.FilePathFilter;
 import org.apache.flink.api.common.io.InputFormat;
 import org.apache.flink.api.common.typeinfo.TypeInformation;
-import org.apache.flink.api.java.io.CollectionInputFormat;
 import org.apache.flink.configuration.Configuration;
 import org.apache.flink.streaming.api.datastream.DataStream;
 import org.apache.flink.streaming.api.datastream.DataStreamSource;
@@ -108,9 +108,6 @@ public class HoodieTableSource implements
 
   private static final int NO_LIMIT_CONSTANT = -1;
 
-  private static final InputFormat<RowData, ?> EMPTY_INPUT_FORMAT =
-      new CollectionInputFormat<>(Collections.emptyList(), null);
-
   private final transient org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration hadoopConf;
   private final transient HoodieTableMetaClient metaClient;
   private final long maxCompactionMemoryInBytes;
@@ -340,7 +337,7 @@ private List<MergeOnReadInputSplit> buildFileIndex() {
             if (inputSplits.size() == 0) {
               // When there is no input splits, just return an empty source.
               LOG.warn("No input splits generate for MERGE_ON_READ input format, returns empty collection instead");
-              return EMPTY_INPUT_FORMAT;
+              return InputFormats.EMPTY_INPUT_FORMAT;
             }
             return mergeOnReadInputFormat(rowType, requiredRowType, tableAvroSchema,
                 rowDataType, inputSplits, false);
@@ -360,7 +357,7 @@ private List<MergeOnReadInputSplit> buildFileIndex() {
         if (result.isEmpty()) {
           // When there is no input splits, just return an empty source.
           LOG.warn("No input splits generate for incremental read, returns empty collection instead");
-          return new CollectionInputFormat<>(Collections.emptyList(), null);
+          return InputFormats.EMPTY_INPUT_FORMAT;
         }
         return mergeOnReadInputFormat(rowType, requiredRowType, tableAvroSchema,
             rowDataType, result.getInputSplits(), false);
@@ -419,7 +416,7 @@ private MergeOnReadInputFormat mergeOnReadInputFormat(
   private InputFormat<RowData, ?> baseFileOnlyInputFormat() {
     final Path[] paths = getReadPaths();
     if (paths.length == 0) {
-      return EMPTY_INPUT_FORMAT;
+      return InputFormats.EMPTY_INPUT_FORMAT;
     }
     FileInputFormat<RowData> format = new CopyOnWriteInputFormat(
         FilePathUtils.toFlinkPaths(paths),

hudi-flink/src/main/java/org/apache/hudi/table/format/mor/MergeOnReadInputFormat.java

@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ public class MergeOnReadInputFormat
 
   /**
    * Flag saying whether to emit the deletes. In streaming read mode, downstream
-   * operators need the delete messages to retract the legacy accumulator.
+   * operators need the DELETE messages to retract the legacy accumulator.
    */
   private boolean emitDelete;
 

hudi-flink/src/main/java/org/apache/hudi/util/InputFormats.java

@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+package org.apache.hudi.util;
+
+import org.apache.flink.api.common.io.InputFormat;
+import org.apache.flink.api.java.io.CollectionInputFormat;
+import org.apache.flink.table.data.RowData;
+
+import java.util.Collections;
+
+/**
+ * Utilities for all kinds of {@link org.apache.flink.api.common.io.InputFormat}s.
+ */
+public class InputFormats {
+  public static final InputFormat<RowData, ?> EMPTY_INPUT_FORMAT =
+      new CollectionInputFormat<>(Collections.emptyList(), null);
+}

hudi-flink/src/main/java/org/apache/hudi/util/StreamerUtil.java

@@ -250,7 +250,7 @@ public static void initTableIfNotExists(Configuration conf) throws IOException {
           basePath, conf.getString(FlinkOptions.TABLE_NAME));
     }
     // Do not close the filesystem in order to use the CACHE,
-    // some of the filesystems release the handles in #close method.
+    // some filesystems release the handles in #close method.
   }
 
   /**
@@ -359,7 +359,7 @@ public static HoodieFlinkWriteClient createWriteClient(Configuration conf) {
   }
 
   /**
-   * Return the median instant time between the given two instant time.
+   * Returns the median instant time between the given two instant time.
    */
   public static String medianInstantTime(String highVal, String lowVal) {
     try {
@@ -399,6 +399,10 @@ public static Option<Transformer> createTransformer(List<String> classNames) thr
     }
   }
 
+  /**
+   * Returns whether the give file is in valid hoodie format.
+   * For example, filtering out the empty or corrupt files.
+   */
   public static boolean isValidFile(FileStatus fileStatus) {
     final String extension = FSUtils.getFileExtension(fileStatus.getPath().toString());
     if (PARQUET.getFileExtension().equals(extension)) {
@@ -416,11 +420,19 @@ public static boolean isValidFile(FileStatus fileStatus) {
     return fileStatus.getLen() > 0;
   }
 
+  /**
+   * Returns whether insert deduplication is allowed with given configuration {@code conf}.
+   */
   public static boolean allowDuplicateInserts(Configuration conf) {
     WriteOperationType operationType = WriteOperationType.fromValue(conf.getString(FlinkOptions.OPERATION));
     return operationType == WriteOperationType.INSERT && !conf.getBoolean(FlinkOptions.INSERT_DEDUP);
   }
 
+  /**
+   * Returns whether there are successful commits on the timeline.
+   * @param metaClient The meta client
+   * @return true if there is any successful commit
+   */
   public static boolean haveSuccessfulCommits(HoodieTableMetaClient metaClient) {
     return !metaClient.getCommitsTimeline().filterCompletedInstants().empty();
   }