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> State API Should Support Data Expiration (State TTL)
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> Key: FLINK-3089
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-3089
> Project: Flink
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: API / DataStream, Runtime / State Backends
> Reporter: Niels Basjes
> Assignee: Andrey Zagrebin
> Priority: Major
> Labels: stale-assigned
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> In some usecases (webanalytics) there is a need to have a state per visitor
> on a website (i.e. keyBy(sessionid) ).
> At some point the visitor simply leaves and no longer creates new events (so
> a special 'end of session' event will not occur).
> The only way to determine that a visitor has left is by choosing a timeout,
> like "After 30 minutes no events we consider the visitor 'gone'".
> Only after this (chosen) timeout has expired should we discard this state.
> In the Trigger part of Windows we can set a timer and close/discard this kind
> of information. But that introduces the buffering effect of the window (which
> in some scenarios is unwanted).
> What I would like is to be able to set a timeout on a specific state which I
> can update afterwards.
> This makes it possible to create a map function that assigns the right value
> and that discards the state automatically.
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