KeySelector was exactly what I need. Thank you a lot. I modified my code in this way and now it works:
DataStream<Harness.KafkaRecord> LCxAccStream = env .addSource(new FlinkKafkaConsumer010<>("LCacc", new CustomDeserializer(), properties)).setParallelism(4) .assignTimestampsAndWatermarks(new CustomTimestampExtractor()).setParallelism(4) .map(new MapFunction<Tuple8<String, String, Date, String, String, Double, Double, Double>, Harness.KafkaRecord>(){ @Override public Harness.KafkaRecord map(Tuple8<String, String, Date, String, String, Double, Double, Double> value) throws Exception { return new Harness.KafkaRecord(value.f0, value.f1, value.f2, value.f3, value.f4, value.f5); } }).setParallelism(4) .keyBy(new KeySelector<Harness.KafkaRecord, String>() { public String getKey(Harness.KafkaRecord record) { return record.key; } }) .window(TumblingEventTimeWindows.of(Time.milliseconds(WINDOW_SIZE))) .apply(new WindowFunction<Harness.KafkaRecord, Harness.KafkaRecord, String, TimeWindow>() { public void apply(String key, TimeWindow window, Iterable<Harness.KafkaRecord> input, Collector<Harness.KafkaRecord> out) throws Exception { ArrayList<Harness.KafkaRecord> list = new ArrayList<Harness.KafkaRecord>(); for (Harness.KafkaRecord in: input) list.add(in); Collections.sort(list); for(Harness.KafkaRecord output: list) out.collect(output); } }); -- Sent from: http://apache-flink-user-mailing-list-archive.2336050.n4.nabble.com/