(a) It is by design. For keyed state, you can only access state for that key, not others. If you want one value per key, ValueState fits more appropriate that MapState. (b) state-processor-api aims to access/create/modify/upgrade offline savepoint but not running state. Queryable state may meet your requirement, but it is not actively developed for a while according to my observation and still beta.
Queryable state: https://ci.apache.org/projects/flink/flink-docs-release-1.12/dev/stream/state/queryable_state.html On February 9, 2021 at 22:09:29, Sandeep khanzode (sand...@shiftright.ai) wrote: Hello, I am creating a class that extends RichCoFlatMapFunction. I need to connect() two streams to basically share the state of one stream in another. This is what I do: private transient MapState<KeyClass, ValueClass> state; @Override public void open(Configuration parameters) throws Exception { MapStateDescriptor<KeyClass, ValueClass> stateDescriptor = new MapStateDescriptor<>(“abc-saved-state", Types.POJO(KeyClass.class), Types.POJO(ValueClass.class)); state = getRuntimeContext().getMapState(stateDescriptor); This works correctly. I have two questions: (a) Whenever I debug, I can only see the current key in the MapState, not all the possible keys that were created before and saved. Next time, I get a hit for another key, I will only see the other key and not the rest of previous keys. Is it by design or am I missing something? (b) Can I somehow access this state beyond the class that holds the state? I.e. can I access the state in some other class? If not, can I use the https://ci.apache.org/projects/flink/flink-docs-release-1.9/dev/libs/state_processor_api.html to do this? Is that the correct way to access the running state of one stream elsewhere in the program without corrupting it? Your response will be greatly appreciated. I will be happy to add more details if required. Thanks, Sandeep Ramesh Khanzode
