Thanks Guowei. Another question I have is, what is the use of a broadcast state when I can update a map state or value state inside of the process broadcast element method and use that state to do a lookup in the process element method like this example https://stackoverflow.com/questions/58307154/initialize-the-content-of-a-mapstate
Best, Nick On Sun, Jan 24, 2021 at 9:23 PM Guowei Ma <guowei....@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, Nick > You might need to handle it yourself If you have to process an element > only after you get the broadcast state. > For example, you could “cache” the element to the state and handle it > when the element from the broadcast side elements are arrived. Specially if > you are using the `KeyedBroadcastProcessFunction` you could use the > `applyToKeyedState` to access the element you cache before. > > Best, > Guowei > > > On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 10:24 AM Nick Bendtner <buggi...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi guys, >> What is the way to initialize broadcast state(say with default values) >> before the first element shows up in the broadcasting stream? I do a lookup >> on the broadcast state to process transactions which come from another >> stream. The problem is the broadcast state is empty until the first element >> shows up. >> >> >> Best, >> Nick. >> >
