Hi Hequn, Thanks for your response Yea I know about the table API, but I am searching a way to have a bounded context with a stream, somehow create a dataset from a buffer store in a window of datastream
Regards, Bastien Le mar. 25 sept. 2018 à 14:50, Hequn Cheng <[email protected]> a écrit : > Hi bastien, > > Flink features two relational APIs, the Table API and SQL. Both APIs are > unified APIs for batch and stream processing, i.e., queries are executed > with the same semantics on unbounded, real-time streams or bounded[1]. > There are also documents about Join[2]. > > Best, Hequn > [1] https://flink.apache.org/flink-applications.html#layered-apis > [2] > https://ci.apache.org/projects/flink/flink-docs-master/dev/table/sql.html#joins > > On Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 4:14 PM bastien dine <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hello everyone, >> >> I need to join some files to perform some processing.. The dataset API is >> a perfect way to achieve this, I am able to do it when I read file in batch >> (csv) >> >> However in the prod environment, I will receive thoses files in kafka >> messages (one message = one line of a file) >> So I am considering using a global window + a custom trigger on a end of >> file message and a process window function. >> But I can not go too far with that as process is only one function and >> chaining functions will be a pain. I don't think that emitting a datastream >> & windows / trigger on EOF before every process function is a good idea >> >> However I would like to work in a bounded way once I received all of my >> elements (after the trigger on global window), like the dataset API, as I >> will join on my whole dataset.. >> >> I thought maybe it would be a good idea to go for table API and group >> window ? but you can not have custom trigger and a global group window on a >> table ?(like the global window on datastream ?) >> Best alternative would be to create a dataset as a result of my process >> window function.. but I don't think this is possible, is it ? >> >> Best Regards, >> Bastien >> >
