I might just try and do that. ;-) On Thu, 16 Feb 2017 at 03:55 Thomas Groh <[email protected]> wrote:
> As of Github PR #1998 (https://github.com/apache/beam/pull/1998), the new > Pipeline Surgery API is ready and available. There are a couple of > refinements coming in PR #2006, but in general pipelines can now, post > construction, have PTransforms swapped out to whatever the runner desires > (standard "behavior-maintaining" caveats apply). > > Moving forwards, this will enable pipelines to be run on multiple runners > without having to reconstruct the graph via repeated applications of > PTransforms to the pipeline (this also includes being able to, for example, > read a pipeline from a serialized representation, and executing the result > on an arbitrary runner). > > Those of you who are runner authors (at least, those who I can easily > identify as such) should expect a Pull Request from me sometime next week > porting you off of intercepting calls to apply and to the new surgery API. > You are, of course, welcome to beat me to the punch. > > Thanks, > > Thomas >
