You may want to explore the use of Looping Timers. https://beam.apache.org/blog/looping-timers/
Please note that there are no order guarantees in OnProcess, some ideas on solutions to this are explored in: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_HoNNU6b3I Cheers On Wed, 20 Jan 2021 at 05:07, Reuven Lax <[email protected]> wrote: > What sort of windows are you using? > > On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 1:05 PM Andrei Arion <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I have tried to use Event Time Timers cf >> https://beam.apache.org/blog/timely-processing/ but i cannot seem to >> find a way to set the timer (when there are no elements the process() >> method is never called...) >> >> The closest answer that I could find on StackOverflow ( >> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/54444718/apache-beam-how-to-trigger-empty-windows) >> seem to suggest that there is no alternative than inserting dummy/fake data >> ? >> >> >> Is this true or there are better ways to achieve that. >> >> Thank you, >> Andrei >> >
