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Till Rohrmann commented on FLINK-3318:
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Hi [~ivan.mushketyk],
yes I think we need some API calls which let you specify for a node how often
it can appear. I think you're proposal looks good, but I would not let the
quantifier calls take as a parameter the filter conditions.
{code}
Pattern.begin("start").optional().followedBy("next").where(...).times(1,
3).next("end").subtype(...).every()
{code}
> Add support for quantifiers to CEP's pattern API
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>
> Key: FLINK-3318
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-3318
> Project: Flink
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: CEP
> Affects Versions: 1.0.0
> Reporter: Till Rohrmann
> Priority: Minor
>
> It would be a good addition to extend the pattern API to support quantifiers
> known from regular expressions (e.g. Kleene star, ?, +, or count bounds).
> This would considerably enrich the set of supported patterns.
> Implementing the count bounds could be done by unrolling the pattern state.
> In order to support the Kleene star operator, the {{NFACompiler}} has to be
> extended to insert epsilon-transition between a Kleene start state and the
> succeeding pattern state. In order to support {{?}}, one could insert two
> paths from the preceding state, one which accepts the event and another which
> directly goes into the next pattern state.
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