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Robert Metzger commented on FLINK-1525:
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Hi,
great. We're always happy about new contributors.
The idea behind such a tool is to allow users to easily configure and
parameterize their functions and code.
I think something like this would be really helpful:
{code}
public static void main(String[] inArgs) throws Exception {
final ArgsUtil args = new ArgsUtil(inArgs);
String input = args.getString("input", true); // true for required
String output = args.getString("output", false, "file:///tmp"); // not
required with default value.
Configuration extParams = args.getParameters();
// with extParams containing extParams.getString("ignoreTerm"); and the
other -D arguments.
DataSet<Tuple2<String, Integer>> counts = text.flatMap(new
Tokenizer()).withParameters(extParams).map(new TermFilter(args));
{code}
I think the right location for this is the {{flink-contrib}} package.
Also, its very important to write test cases for your code and to add some
documentation... But I think that can follow after a first working prototype.
Let me know if you need more information on this.
> Provide utils to pass -D parameters to UDFs
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>
> Key: FLINK-1525
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-1525
> Project: Flink
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: flink-contrib
> Reporter: Robert Metzger
> Labels: starter
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> Hadoop users are used to setting job configuration through "-D" on the
> command line.
> Right now, Flink users have to manually parse command line arguments and pass
> them to the methods.
> It would be nice to provide a standard args parser with is taking care of
> such stuff.
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