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ASF GitHub Bot commented on FLINK-1389: --------------------------------------- Github user fhueske commented on the pull request: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/301#issuecomment-71433679 Hmmm, using the String pattern seems to be much more comfortable for users, no? If a user wants to have the data written out with some kind of filename pattern, she needs to implement a new IF and overwrite a method instead of simply setting a configuration parameter. The only thing you gain is that you can do some "fancy" arithmetics (+/- 1) with the task number. Not sure if that's worth it. The former way was very elegant and clean, IMO. If you persist on the having the option to choose between 0 and 1-based indexing, I would vote to go with the former variant and keep both parameters. > Allow setting custom file extensions for files created by the FileOutputFormat > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Key: FLINK-1389 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-1389 > Project: Flink > Issue Type: New Feature > Reporter: Robert Metzger > Assignee: Robert Metzger > Priority: Minor > > A user requested the ability to name avro files with the "avro" extension. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)