Correct, either counter must be made static, or both the executorService
and random non-static (which makes the counter unnecessary).
For an example I would regard the latter as preferable to ensure that
instances don't interfere with each other.
As for your question, for a given instance open() is only called once.
On 06.07.2018 15:33, NEKRASSOV, ALEXEI wrote:
Hi,
I'm confused by lines 119-122 in
https://github.com/lamber-ken/flink/blob/master/flink-examples/flink-examples-streaming/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/streaming/examples/async/AsyncIOExample.java
Why is counter non-static, but executorService and random - static?
It's not clear to me whether open() can be called more than once on a given
object, and thus it's not clear whether the intent is to count the number of
open's for every object (the current code). Or we really need to make counter
static - to count the number of objects that share executorService and random?..
Having executorService and random as static, but counter as instance-specific
will not work when someone creates a second instance of SampleAsyncFunction. In
second SampleAsyncFunction the counter will be 0 and we will re-intialize
static executorService and random, thus interfering with the first
SampleAsyncFunction object.
Thanks,
Alex
