Re: Looking up values in a metadata store for "condensed" events

2016-05-18 Thread Aljoscha Krettek
Hi, what you can also do is use a RichMapFunction. Rich functions have open()/close() methods that get called before the first element and the last element, respectively. See here https://ci.apache.org/projects/flink/flink-docs-master/apis/common/index.html#specifying-transformation-functions for m

Looking up values in a metadata store for "condensed" events

2016-05-09 Thread milind parikh
I am new to flink. I am wondering what the best practice is for looking up additional values for entities embedded in an event. For example, an event might have the engine model #. A metadata store has the typical rpm characteristics of an engine model #; which can be used in a subsequent processi