Aljoscha Krettek created FLINK-19317:
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Summary: Make EventTime the default StreamTimeCharacteristic
Key: FLINK-19317
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-19317
Project: Flink
Issue Type: Sub-task
Components: API / DataStream
Reporter: Aljoscha Krettek
Assignee: Aljoscha Krettek
Excerpt from FLIP-134:
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As described above, event time is the only sensible time characteristic for
batch. We therefore propose to chagne the default value of the
StreamTimeCharacteristic from ProcessingTime to EventTime. This means the
DataStream API programs that were using event time before now just work without
manually changing this setting. Processing-time programs will also still work,
because using processing-time timers is not dependent on the
StreamTimeCharacteristic. DataStream programs that don't set a
TimestampAssigner or WatermarkStrategy will also still work if they don't use
operations that don't rely on (event-time) timestamps. This is true for both
BATCH and STREAMING execution mode.
The only real user-visible change of this is that programs that used the
KeyedStream.timeWindow()/DataStream.timeWindow() operation, which is dependent
on the StreamTimeCharacteristic will now use event time by default. We don't
think this operation is useful because the behaviour can be surprising. We
recommend users always use an explicit processing-time window or event-time
window.
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