David Moravek created FLINK-14709: ------------------------------------- Summary: Allow outputting elements in close method of chained drivers. Key: FLINK-14709 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-14709 Project: Flink Issue Type: Improvement Components: Runtime / Task Affects Versions: 1.9.1, 1.8.1, 1.7.2 Reporter: David Moravek
Currently, BatchTask and DataSourceTask only allow outputting elements in close method of "rich" operators, that they directly execute. Task workflow is as follows: 1) open "head" driver (calls "open" method on udf) 2) open chained drivers 3) run "head" driver 4) close "head" driver (calls "close" method on udf) 5) close output collector (no elements can be collected after this point) 6) close chained drivers In order to properly support outputs from close method, we want to switch 6) and 5). We also need to tweak implementation of Reduce / Combine chained drivers, because they dispose sorters in closeTask method (this should be done in the close method). This would bring huge performance improvement for Beam users, because we could properly implement bundling on batch (whole partition = single bundle). -- This message was sent by Atlassian Jira (v8.3.4#803005)