Hey! I just saw that the fix was ported to the Eclipse 4.5 M4 release, which can be downloaded here: https://www.eclipse.org/downloads/index-developer.php
I am eager to try that out for myself later. If the fix is really included, this Eclipse version should support lambdas elegantly out of the box. Greetings, Stephan On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 2:09 PM, Stephan Ewen <se...@apache.org> wrote: > Hi Tran Nam-Luc! > > Java 8 lambdas are a bit tricky right now, because of Java's generic type > erasure. Flink needs the type information of all Functions before sending > programs to the execution engine. > (for more details, see here: > https://github.com/apache/flink/blob/master/docs/internal_types_serialization.md > ) > > The type analysis is part of how we make program execution very robust, > even on really large data. By not just passing Java Objects and using > ad-hoc serialization frameworks, but > by understanding the types up front and parameterizing the runtime > accordingly, we get efficiency and reliability in the execution. We can > also do a better job in finding errors before the parallel execution. > > The JDT compiler accidentally dropped generic types on lambdas a while > back, but we submitted a patch to reintroduce them (see [1]) and it will be > part of the next major Eclipse release. > > Until then, to use Java 8 lambdas you need to follow these points: > > - If the function returns a simple type (like int, long, String) or any > non-generic class, it should work out of the box. > - If the function returns a generic type (like tuple), you need to use a > type hint to tell the system the return type. Below is an example for that. > > DataSet<Long> data = ... > DataSet<Tuple2<Long, Double>> = data.map( value -> new Tuple2<>(value, > value * 0.5) ).returns("Tuple2<Long,Double>"); > > The type hints are a workaround that will be obsolete once Java compiler > support is available. > > Greetings, > Stephan > > > [1] https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=449063 > > > > > On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 12:27 PM, Nam-Luc Tran <namluc.t...@euranova.eu> > wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I am trying to use Java 8 lambdas in my project and hit the following >> error: >> >> Exception in thread "main" >> org.apache.flink.api.common.functions.InvalidTypesException: The >> generic type parameters of 'Tuple2' are missing. >> It seems that your compiler has not stored them into the .class >> file. >> Currently, only the Eclipse JDT compiler preserves the type >> information necessary to use the lambdas feature type-safely. >> See the documentation for more information about how to compile jobs >> containing lambda expressions. >> at >> >> org.apache.flink.api.java.typeutils.TypeExtractor.validateLambdaGenericParameter(TypeExtractor.java:779) >> at >> >> org.apache.flink.api.java.typeutils.TypeExtractor.validateLambdaGenericParameters(TypeExtractor.java:765) >> at >> >> org.apache.flink.api.java.typeutils.TypeExtractor.getUnaryOperatorReturnType(TypeExtractor.java:135) >> at >> >> org.apache.flink.api.java.typeutils.TypeExtractor.getMapReturnTypes(TypeExtractor.java:78) >> at org.apache.flink.api.java.DataSet.map(DataSet.java:160) >> at eu.euranova.flink.Axa.main(Axa.java:62) >> >> My very simple code is the following: >> >> File directory = new File( >> "PATH TO A DIRECTORY WITH CSV FILES"); >> DataSet set = env.fromElements(new Tuple3(0, 0.0, 0.0)); >> for (File file : directory.listFiles()) { >> int pathID = 0; >> String filePath = "file://" + file.getAbsolutePath(); >> DataSet set2 = >> >> env.readCsvFile(filePath).ignoreFirstLine().includeFields("11").types(Double.class,Double.class); >> DataSet set3 = set2.map(tuple -> new Tuple3(pathID, tuple.f0, >> tuple.f1)); >> set = set.union(set3); >> } >> >> I followed the steps in the Java 8 documentation section >> ( >> http://flink.apache.org/docs/0.8/java8_programming_guide.html#compiler-limitations >> ) >> and have applied the following to the pom.xml file created using the >> flink archetype: >> - Modified java 1.6 reference to 1.8 >> - Uncommented the section related to Java 8 lambdas >> - Installed Eclipse Java developer tools (JDT) >> - Installed m2e-jdt connector >> >> The pom.xml does not show any error and builds fine. >> >> Am I missing something? Do I need to explicity set up Eclipse JDT? The >> only installed environment shown in my preferences is the >> /usr/java/jdk-1.8.0_31 from oracle. >> >> Thanks and best regards, >> >> Tran Nam-Luc >> > >
