@Igal, this sounds more comprehensive (better) than just opening DataStreams: "basically exposing the core Flink job that is the heart of stateful functions. "
Great! -- [image: MotaWord] Oytun Tez M O T A W O R D | CTO & Co-Founder oy...@motaword.com <https://www.motaword.com/blog> On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 10:56 AM Igal Shilman <i...@ververica.com> wrote: > Hi Annemarie, > There are plans to make stateful functions more easily embeddable within a > Flink Job, > perhaps skipping ingress/egress routing abstracting all together and > basically exposing the > core Flink job that is the heart of stateful functions. > Although these plans are not concrete yet I believe this would be brought > to discussion with the community in the upcoming weeks. > > Currently, you can split your pipeline to a preprocessing Flink job, and a > stateful functions job. > > Good luck, > Igal. > > On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 4:26 PM Annemarie Burger < > annemarie.bur...@campus.tu-berlin.de> wrote: > >> I was wondering if it is possible to use a Stateful Function within a >> Flink >> pipeline. I know they work with different API's, so I was wondering if it >> is >> possible to have a DataStream as ingress for a Stateful Function. >> >> Some context: I'm working on a streaming graph analytics system, and want >> to >> save the state of the graph within a window. Stateful functions could then >> allow me to process these distributed graph states by making use of the SF >> messaging. >> >> Thanks! >> >> >> >> -- >> Sent from: >> http://apache-flink-user-mailing-list-archive.2336050.n4.nabble.com/ >> >