MustFollow can be used to force processing to wait for another stage to complete, when a direct PCollection dependency does not exist.
The unit test only checks pass-through correctness. I have tested the actual sequencing on DirectRunner and FlumeRunner, and believe the mechanism should be portable to other runners. This could also be added as a call on ParDo, but providing a standalone PTransform seemed cleaner. The series of operations adds more to the execution graph than I'd like; a dotted-line dependency would be better. Not sure if this is easy to fix though. @robertwb Post-Commit Tests Status (on master branch) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Lang | SDK | Apex | Dataflow | Flink | Gearpump | Samza | Spark --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- Go | [](https://builds.apache.org/job/beam_PostCommit_Go_GradleBuild/lastCompletedBuild/) | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- Java | [](https://builds.apache.org/job/beam_PostCommit_Java_GradleBuild/lastCompletedBuild/) | [](https://builds.apache.org/job/beam_PostCommit_Java_ValidatesRunner_Apex_Gradle/lastCompletedBuild/) | [](https://builds.apache.org/job/beam_PostCommit_Java_ValidatesRunner_Dataflow_Gradle/lastCompletedBuild/) | [](https://builds.apache.org/job/beam_PostCommit_Java_ValidatesRunner_Flink_Gradle/lastCompletedBuild/) | [](https://builds.apache.org/job/beam_PostCommit_Java_ValidatesRunner_Gearpump_Gradle/lastCompletedBuild/) | [](https://builds.apache.org/job/beam_PostCommit_Java_ValidatesRunner_Samza_Gradle/lastCompletedBuild/) | [](https://builds.apache.org/job/beam_PostCommit_Java_ValidatesRunner_Spark_Gradle/lastCompletedBuild/) Python | [](https://builds.apache.org/job/beam_PostCommit_Python_Verify/lastCompletedBuild/) | --- | [](https://builds.apache.org/job/beam_PostCommit_Py_VR_Dataflow/lastCompletedBuild/) </br> [](https://builds.apache.org/job/beam_PostCommit_Py_ValCont/lastCompletedBuild/) | --- | --- | --- | --- [ Full content available at: https://github.com/apache/beam/pull/6343 ] This message was relayed via gitbox.apache.org for [email protected]
