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ASF GitHub Bot commented on FLINK-2279: --------------------------------------- Github user gyfora commented on the pull request: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/870#issuecomment-115756972 There is nothing tricky there: In java every record in the stream passed to closewith() will be fed back. (And closeWith returns this stream). In scala its even clearer as the stepfunction returns 2 streams in a tuple. The first one is the feedback the second is the output. The methods are not the same but the functionality is equivalent. > Allow treating iteration head as ConnectedDataStream > ----------------------------------------------------- > > Key: FLINK-2279 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-2279 > Project: Flink > Issue Type: New Feature > Components: Streaming > Affects Versions: 0.10 > Reporter: Gyula Fora > Assignee: Gyula Fora > Priority: Minor > > Currently the streaming iterations are restricted to use the same input and > feedback types which are routed through the same operator. > This means that if the user want to distinguish between normal input and > feedback record he/she needs to mark it somehow and also a wrapper type is > necessary for handling separate input and feedback types. > This makes implementing iterative algorithms (such as ML) quite ugly at some > points. > I propose to let the user treat the normal input if the iteration head > operator and the feedback input as a ConnectedDataStream which can be used to > apply co-operators both distinguishing the inputs and allowing different > feedback types for elegant implementations. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)