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ASF GitHub Bot commented on FLINK-5720: --------------------------------------- Github user aljoscha commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/3816#discussion_r114756625 --- Diff: flink-streaming-scala/src/main/scala/org/apache/flink/streaming/api/scala/KeyedStream.scala --- @@ -183,7 +183,10 @@ class KeyedStream[T, K](javaStream: KeyedJavaStream[T, K]) extends DataStream[T] * Creates a new [[DataStream]] by folding the elements of this DataStream * using an associative fold function and an initial value. An independent * aggregate is kept per key. + * + * @deprecated will be removed in a future version */ + @Deprecated --- End diff -- I don't know, actually. It seems actual (random) code on GitHub only has it in the annotation: https://github.com/ReactiveX/RxScala/blob/0.x/src/main/scala/rx/lang/scala/Observable.scala#L4876 > Deprecate "Folding" in all of DataStream API > -------------------------------------------- > > Key: FLINK-5720 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-5720 > Project: Flink > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: DataStream API > Reporter: Aljoscha Krettek > Assignee: Chesnay Schepler > Priority: Blocker > Fix For: 1.3.0 > > > Folding is an operation that cannot be done incrementally in a distributed > way and that also cannot be done on merging windows. Now that we have > {{AggregatingState}} and aggregate operations we should deprecate folding in > the APIs and deprecate {{FoldingState}}. > I suggest to remove folding completely in Flink 2.0 -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.15#6346)