Thanks for your answer Ufuk.
However, I have been reading about KeySelector and I don't understand
completely how it works with my idea.
I am using an algorithm that gives me an score between some different
strings. My idea is: if the score is higher than 0'80 for example, then
those two strings will be consider the same and when I apply the
keyby("name") those similar string will be keyed as they have the exact
same name.
El lunes, 6 de junio de 2016, Ufuk Celebi <u...@apache.org> escribió:
> Hey Iñaki,
>
> you can use the KeySelector as described here:
>
> https://ci.apache.org/projects/flink/flink-docs-release-1.0/apis/common/index.html#specifying-keys
>
> But you only a local view for the current element, e.g. the library
> you use to determine the similarity has to know the similarities
> upfront.
>
> – Ufuk
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 9:31 AM, iñaki williams <juanramall...@gmail.com
> <javascript:;>> wrote:
> > Hi guys,
> >
> > I am using Flink on my project and I have a question. (I am using Java)
> >
> > Is it possible to modify the keyby method in order to key by similarities
> > and not by the exact name?
> >
> > Example: I recieve 2 DataStreams, in the first one , the name of the
> field
> > that I want to KeyBy is "John Locke", while in the Datastream the field
> > value is "John L". Can I use some java library to find for similarities
> > between strings and if the similitude is high, then key those elements
> > together.
>
