Hi Mans, there should be no issue to only have side-outputs in your operator. There should also be no big drawbacks. I guess mostly some metrics will not be properly populated, but you can always populate them manually or add new ones.
Best, Arvid On Mon, Dec 2, 2019 at 8:40 PM M Singh <mans2si...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Hi: > > I am replacing SplitOperator in my flink application with a simple > processor with side outputs. > > My questions is that does the main stream from which we get the side > outputs need to have any events (ie, produced using by the using > collector.collect) ? Or can we have all the output as side outputs ? Also > are there any pros and cons of at least one main collected output vs all > side outputs ? > > Thanks > > Mans >
