Github user StephanEwen commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/1699#discussion_r53994466 --- Diff: flink-streaming-java/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/streaming/api/operators/TimestampedCollector.java --- @@ -51,17 +48,19 @@ public TimestampedCollector(Output<StreamRecord<T>> output) { @Override public void collect(T record) { - output.collect(reuse.replace(record, timestamp)); + output.collect(reuse.replace(record)); + } + + public void setTimestamp(StreamRecord<?> timestampBase) { + if (timestampBase.hasTimestamp()) { + reuse.setTimestamp(timestampBase.getTimestamp()); + } else { + reuse.eraseTimestamp(); + } } - /** - * Sets the timestamp (long milliseconds) that is attached to elements that get emitted using - * {@link #collect(Object)} - * - * @param timestamp The timestamp in milliseconds - */ - public void setTimestamp(long timestamp) { - this.timestamp = timestamp; + public void setAbsoluteTimestamp(long timestamp) { --- End diff -- I renamed that to make sure I do not overlook any places where the better method would have been `setTimestamp(StreamRecord)`. Ideally, we'd not have the `setAbsoluteTimestamp(long)` method at all. But that would need changes in the window operators.
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