Hi Ronny, check out this answer on SO: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/30599616/create-objects-from-input-files-in-apache-flink It is a similar use case ... I guess you can get the metadata from the input split as well.
On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 11:30 AM, Ronny Bräunlich <r.braeunl...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I want to read a file containing textfiles with Flink. > As I already found out I can simply point the environment to the directory > and it will read all the files. > What I couldn’t find out is if it’s possible to keep the file metadata > somehow. > Concrete, I need the timestamp, the filename and the file content. Is > there a way to do this with the ExecutionEnvironment? > > Cheers, > Ronny