Hi subash, You can pass WriteMode in second parameter of write* method. For example:
``` DataStream<…> myStream = …; myStream.writeAsCsv(“path of output”, FileSystem.WriteMode.OVERWRITE); ``` I hope this helps. Regards, Chiwan Park > On Mar 22, 2016, at 8:18 PM, subash basnet <yasub...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello all, > > I am trying to write the streaming data to file and update it recurrently > with the streaming data. I get the following unable to override exception > error: > > Caused by: java.io.IOException: File or directory already exists. Existing > files and directories are not overwritten in NO_OVERWRITE mode. Use OVERWRITE > mode to overwrite existing files and directories. > at > org.apache.flink.core.fs.FileSystem.initOutPathLocalFS(FileSystem.java:594) > at > org.apache.flink.api.common.io.FileOutputFormat.open(FileOutputFormat.java:227) > at > org.apache.flink.api.java.io.CsvOutputFormat.open(CsvOutputFormat.java:160) > at > org.apache.flink.streaming.api.functions.sink.OutputFormatSinkFunction.open(OutputFormatSinkFunction.java:60) > at > org.apache.flink.api.common.functions.util.FunctionUtils.openFunction(FunctionUtils.java:38) > at > org.apache.flink.streaming.api.operators.AbstractUdfStreamOperator.open(AbstractUdfStreamOperator.java:91) > at > org.apache.flink.streaming.runtime.tasks.StreamTask.openAllOperators(StreamTask.java:314) > at > org.apache.flink.streaming.runtime.tasks.StreamTask.invoke(StreamTask.java:214) > at org.apache.flink.runtime.taskmanager.Task.run(Task.java:559) > at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745) > > > > How to set the necessary override property? > > Best Regards, > Subash Basnet >