That is a more round-abou then I hoped for. I was hoping that a process function could call a stateful function and receive and act upon the response, but that's not the case. Thank you.
On Wed, Apr 7, 2021 at 11:38 AM Igal Shilman <i...@ververica.com> wrote: > Yes it is possible. A process function upstream to a stateful function can > emit a message that > in turn will be routed to that function using the data stream integration. > > > On Wed, Apr 7, 2021 at 7:16 PM Marco Villalobos <mvillalo...@kineteque.com> > wrote: > >> Thank you for the clarification. >> >> BUT....there was one question not addressed: >> >> Can a stateful function be called by a process function? >> >> On Wed, Apr 7, 2021 at 8:19 AM Igal Shilman <i...@ververica.com> wrote: >> >>> Hello Marco! >>> >>> Your understanding is correct, but in addition >>> You can also use StateFun within a DataStream application [1] >>> >>> [1] >>> https://ci.apache.org/projects/flink/flink-statefun-docs-master/docs/sdk/flink-datastream/ >>> >>> On Wed, Apr 7, 2021 at 2:49 AM Marco Villalobos < >>> mvillalo...@kineteque.com> wrote: >>> >>>> Upon reading about stateful functions, it seems as though first, a data >>>> stream has to flow to an event ingress. Then, the stateful functions will >>>> perform computations via whatever functionality it provides. Finally, the >>>> results of said computations will flow to the event egress which will be >>>> yet another datastream within the data stream job. >>>> >>>> Is my understanding correct? >>>> >>>> I was hoping that a stateful function could be called by a process >>>> function, is that possible? (I am guessing no). >>>> >>>> Please let me know. >>>> >>>> Thank you. Sincerely, >>>> >>>> Marco A. Villalobos >>>> >>>
