Is the watermark advancing past the end of the window?

On Mon, Jan 13, 2020 at 2:02 PM Aaron Dixon <atdi...@gmail.com> wrote:

> The window is not empty fwiw; it has elements; I get an early firing pane
> for the window but well after the watermark passes there is no ON_TIME
> pane. Would this be a bug in Dataflow? Seems fundamental, so I'm concerned
> perhaps the Beam spec doesn't obligate ON_TIME firings?
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> On Mon, Jan 13, 2020 at 3:58 PM Luke Cwik <lc...@google.com> wrote:
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>> I would have expected an empty on time pane since the default on time
>> behavior is FIRE_ALWAYS.
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>> On Mon, Jan 13, 2020 at 1:54 PM Aaron Dixon <atdi...@gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> Can anyone confirm?
>>>
>>> This is intermittent. Some (it seems, sparse) windows don't get an
>>> ON_TIME firing after watermark. Is this a bug or is there a reason to not
>>> expect ON_TIME firings for every window?
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jan 13, 2020 at 3:47 PM Rui Wang <ruw...@google.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> If it indeed happened as you have described, I will be very interested
>>>> in the expected behaviour.
>>>>
>>>> Something I remembered before: the trigger condition meets just gives
>>>> the runner/engine "permission" to fire, but runner/engine may not fire
>>>> immediately. But I don't know if the engine/runner will guarantee to fire.
>>>>
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>>>> -Rui
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>>>> On Mon, Jan 13, 2020 at 1:43 PM Aaron Dixon <atdi...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I have the following trigger:
>>>>>
>>>>> .apply(Window
>>>>>       .configure()
>>>>>       .triggering(AfterWatermark
>>>>>            .pastEndOfWindow()
>>>>>            .withEarlyFirings(AfterPane
>>>>>                 .elementCountAtLeast(1)))
>>>>>       .accumulatingFiredPanes()
>>>>>       .withAllowedLateness(Duration.ZERO)
>>>>>
>>>>> But in Dataflow I notice that I never get an ON_TIME firing for my
>>>>> window -- I only see early firing for elements, and then nothing.
>>>>>
>>>>> My assumption is that AfterWatermark should give me a last, on-time
>>>>> pane under this configuration when the watermark surpasses the window's 
>>>>> end.
>>>>>
>>>>> Is my expectation correct?
>>>>>
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