Elias Levy created FLINK-9600: --------------------------------- Summary: Add DataStream transformation variants that pass timestamp to the user function Key: FLINK-9600 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-9600 Project: Flink Issue Type: Improvement Components: Streaming Affects Versions: 1.5.0 Reporter: Elias Levy
It is often necessary to access the timestamp assigned to records within user functions. At the moment this is only possible from {{RichFunction}}. Implementing a {{RichFunction}} just to access the timestamp is burdensome, so most job carry a duplicate of the timestamp within the record. It would be useful if {{DataStream}} provided transformation methods that accepted user functions that could be passed the record's timestamp as an additional argument, similar to how there are two variants of {{flatMap}}, one with an extra parameter that gives the user function access to the output {{Collector}}. Along similar lines, it may be useful to have variants that pass the record's key as an additional parameter. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v7.6.3#76005)