Github user bowenli86 commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/5482#discussion_r172302583 --- Diff: flink-streaming-java/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/streaming/api/datastream/JoinedStreams.java --- @@ -137,6 +158,151 @@ public EqualTo equalTo(KeySelector<T2, KEY> keySelector) { public <W extends Window> WithWindow<T1, T2, KEY, W> window(WindowAssigner<? super TaggedUnion<T1, T2>, W> assigner) { return new WithWindow<>(input1, input2, keySelector1, keySelector2, keyType, assigner, null, null); } + + /** + * Specifies the time boundaries over which the join operation works, so that + * <pre>leftElement.timestamp + lowerBound <= rightElement.timestamp <= leftElement.timestamp + upperBound</pre> + * By default both the lower and the upper bound are inclusive. This can be configured + * with {@link TimeBounded#lowerBoundExclusive(boolean)} and + * {@link TimeBounded#upperBoundExclusive(boolean)} + * + * @param lowerBound The lower bound. Needs to be smaller than or equal to the upperBound + * @param upperBound The upper bound. Needs to be bigger than or equal to the lowerBound + */ + public TimeBounded<T1, T2, KEY> between(Time lowerBound, Time upperBound) { + + TimeCharacteristic timeCharacteristic = + input1.getExecutionEnvironment().getStreamTimeCharacteristic(); + + if (timeCharacteristic != TimeCharacteristic.EventTime) { + throw new RuntimeException("Time-bounded stream joins are only supported in event time"); + } + + checkNotNull(lowerBound, "A lower bound needs to be provided for a time-bounded join"); + checkNotNull(upperBound, "An upper bound needs to be provided for a time-bounded join"); + return new TimeBounded<>( + input1, + input2, + lowerBound.toMilliseconds(), + upperBound.toMilliseconds(), + true, + true, + keySelector1, + keySelector2 + ); + } + } + } + + /** + * Joined streams that have keys for both sides as well as the time boundaries over which + * elements should be joined defined. + * + * @param <IN1> Input type of elements from the first stream + * @param <IN2> Input type of elements from the second stream + * @param <KEY> The type of the key + */ + public static class TimeBounded<IN1, IN2, KEY> { + + private static final String TIMEBOUNDED_JOIN_FUNC_NAME = "TimeBoundedJoin"; --- End diff -- hmm... this might be not very relevant, but I'd prefer a single config class that holds all function's names, rather than having them scattered all over the code base.
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