Hi, with some additional information we might be able to figure this out together. What specific combination of WindowAssigner/Trigger are you using for your example and what is the input stream (including watermarks)?
Cheers, Aljoscha On Mon, 24 Oct 2016 at 06:30 Manu Zhang <owenzhang1...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Say I have a window state of List(("a", 1:00), ("b", 1:03), ("c", 1:06)) > which is triggered to emit when watermark passes the timestamp of an > element. For example, > > on watermark(1:01), List(("a", 1:00)) is emitted > on watermark(1:04), List(("a", 1:00), ("b", 1:03)) is emitted > on watermark(1:07), List(("a", 1:00), ("b", 1:03), ("c", 1:06)) is emitted > > It seems that if *("c", 1:06) is processed before watermark(1:04)* > List(("a", 1:00), ("b", 1:03), ("c", 1:06)) will be emitted on > watermark(1:04). This is incorrect since there could be elements with > timestamp between 1:04 and 1:06 that have not arrived yet. > > I guess this is because watermark trigger doesn't check whether element's > timestamp has been passed. > > Please correct me if any of the above is not right. > > Thanks, > Manu Zhang > > > >