Renkai Ge created FLINK-4428: -------------------------------- Summary: Method map/flatMapWithState may need a eviction policy Key: FLINK-4428 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-4428 Project: Flink Issue Type: New Feature Components: DataStream API Affects Versions: 1.1.2 Reporter: Renkai Ge
I want to count the number of unique visitors of a website every day. If the number changes, I want get the newest number in 1 second, and it should keep silence if the number doesn't change.I implemented this by time window of 1 day,trigger of 1 second and flatMapWithState to filter duplicated results. {code} // case class Visit(uuid: String, time: Long, platform: Int) // case class WindowUv(platform: Int, uv: Long, windowStart: Long, WindowEnd: Long) // val consumer: FlinkKafkaConsumer08[Visit] val stream = env.addSource(consumer) .keyBy(_.platform) .timeWindow(Time.days(1)) .trigger(ContinuousProcessingTimeTrigger.of(Time.seconds(1))) .applyWith((0, Set.empty[Int], 0l, 0l))( foldFunction = { case ((_, set, _, 0), visit) => (visit.platform, set + visit.uuid.hashCode, 0, 0) }, windowFunction = { case (key, window, results) => results.map { case (platform, set, _, _) => (platform, set, window.getStart, window.getEnd) } } ) .mapWith { case (key, set, windowStart, windowEnd) => WindowUv(key, set.size, windowStart, windowEnd) } .keyBy(uv => (uv.platform, uv.windowStart)) .flatMapWithState[WindowUv, Int] { case ((key, num, begin, end), curr) => curr match { case Some(numCurr) if numCurr == num => (Seq.empty, Some(num)) case _ => (Seq(WindowUv(key, num, begin, end)), Some(num)) } } stream.print() env.execute("Boom") {code} There is a problem that I used flatMapWithState,the state of one day will be never updated and never used after the day passed, but it will stay in the memory forever, there is no way to evict it. So I think the status in map may need some eviction policy related with time or global conditions rather than only with the last message of the key(It's hard to tell whether a message is the last when the last is coming). -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)