Just to clarify, the state of a Trigger on GlobalWindows is still local to the key of the element that is in the window(s).
On Wed, 20 Apr 2016 at 18:11 Fabian Hueske <fhue...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Piyush, > > that's not trivial to implement. You can only do that with a so-called > GlobalWindow, i.e., a window which receives all elements of a partition, > and a custom trigger which has state to decide whether it has triggered the > first window or not. It won't work with a CountTrigger. > > Best, Fabian > > 2016-04-20 14:20 GMT+02:00 Piyush Shrivastava <piyush...@yahoo.co.in>: > >> Hi Fabian, >> >> Thanks for the information. I also quickly want to ask that if I >> implement a custom trigger that fires in one hour for the first time and >> then every five minutes, what all functions do I need to use? >> I am considering creating my own trigger referring the code here: >> >> https://github.com/apache/flink/blob/master/flink-streaming-java/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/streaming/api/windowing/triggers/CountTrigger.java >> >> What changes do I need to make? Is it even possible to do this? >> >> Thanks and Regards, >> Piyush Shrivastava <piy...@webograffiti.com> >> [image: WeboGraffiti] >> http://webograffiti.com >> >> >> On Wednesday, 20 April 2016 4:59 PM, Fabian Hueske <fhue...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >> >> Hi Piyush, >> >> if you explicitly set a trigger, the default trigger of the window is >> replaced. >> In your example, the time trigger is replaced by the count trigger, i.e., >> the window is only evaluated after the 100th element was received. >> >> This blog post discusses windows and triggers [1]. >> >> Best, Fabian >> >> [1] http://flink.apache.org/news/2015/12/04/Introducing-windows.html >> >> 2016-04-20 13:20 GMT+02:00 Piyush Shrivastava <piyush...@yahoo.co.in>: >> >> I wanted to know how Windows and Triggers work in Flink. I am creating a >> time window of 20 seconds and a count trigger of 100. >> >> stream.keyBy(0) >> .timeWindow(Time.seconds(20)) >> .trigger(CountTrigger.of(100)) >> >> In this case, when will my window get triggered? When 20 seconds has >> passed, 100 messages are passed? >> >> Thanks and Regards, >> Piyush Shrivastava <piy...@webograffiti.com> >> [image: WeboGraffiti] >> http://webograffiti.com >> >> >> >> >> >