Is it just related to stream api? This feature could be really useful for
etl scenarios with dataset api as well.

On Oct 26, 2016 22:29, "Fabian Hueske" <fhue...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Chen,
>
> thanks for this interesting proposal. I think side output would be a very
> valuable feature to have!
>
> I went of the FLIP and have a few questions.
>
> - Will multiple side outputs of the same type be supported?
> - If I got it right, the FLIP proposes to change the signatures of many
> user-defined functions (FlatMapFunction, WindowFunction, ...). Most of
> these interfaces/classes are annotated with @Public, which means we cannot
> change them in the Flink 1.x release line. What would be alternatives? I
> can think of a) casting the Collector into a RichCollector (as you do in
> your prototype) or b) retrieve the RichCollector from the RuntimeContext
> that a RichFunction provides.
>
> I'm not so familiar with the internals of the DataStream API, so I leave
> comments on that to other.
>
> Best, Fabian
>
> 2016-10-25 18:00 GMT+02:00 Chen Qin <c...@uber.com>:
>
> > Hey folks,
> >
> > Please give feedback on FLIP-13!
> > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FLINK/FLIP-
> > 13+Side+Outputs+in+Flink
> > JIRA task link to google doc
> > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-4460
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Chen Qin
> >
>

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