Ilya,
This constraint was introduced as allowing two threads to emit data creates
lots of bad situations
1. The emit is triggered between end_window and begin_window. This was a
critical blocker
2. Order no longer guaranteed, upon replay getting wrong order of events
within a window. This was something to worry about, but not a blocker
We had users report this problem.
The solution is to pass the data to main thread and have the main thread
emit this data during one of start-window, process, end-window calls.
Ideally during start-window or end-window so as to guarantee order. Keeping
this code in start or end window also ensures that process call remains
optimal.
Thks
Amol
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On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 12:39 PM, Ganelin, Ilya <ilya.gane...@capitalone.com
> wrote:
> Hello – I’ve got an operator that runs a cleanup thread (separate from the
> main event loop) and triggers a callback when an item is removed from an
> internal data structure. I would like for this callback to emit data from
> one of the operator’s ports, but I run into the following Exception:
>
>
>
> (From DefaultOutputPort.java, line 58)
>
> if (operatorThread != null && Thread.*currentThread*() != operatorThread)
> {
> // only under certain modes: enforce this
> throw new IllegalStateException("Current thread " + Thread.
> *currentThread*().getName() +
> " is different from the operator thread " +
> operatorThread.getName());
> }
>
>
>
> I could obviously extend DefaultOperatorPort to bypass this but I’d like
> to understand why that constraint is there and if there’s a good way to
> work around it.
>
>
>
> Would love to hear the community’s thoughts. Thanks!
>
>
>
> - Ilya Ganelin
>
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