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ASF GitHub Bot commented on FLINK-1422:
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Github user fhueske commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/350#discussion_r24167714
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@@ -2398,6 +2399,61 @@ of a function, or use the `withParameters(...)`
method to pass in a configuratio
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+Passing parameters to functions
+-------------------
+
+Parameters can be passed to rich functions using either the constructor
(if the function is
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Only the Configuration object method requires a RichFunction to overwrite
`open()`. Configuring via the constructor (or any other method which sets
non-transient fields) works also for functions that implement the function
interfaces. Also it is not required that the class is defined as `static
final`. That is only necessary if the class is defined inside another class.
> Missing usage example for "withParameters"
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>
> Key: FLINK-1422
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-1422
> Project: Flink
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Documentation
> Affects Versions: 0.8
> Reporter: Alexander Alexandrov
> Assignee: Chesnay Schepler
> Priority: Trivial
> Fix For: 0.8.1
>
> Original Estimate: 1h
> Remaining Estimate: 1h
>
> I am struggling to find a usage example of the "withParameters" method in the
> documentation. At the moment I only see this note:
> {quote}
> Note: As the content of broadcast variables is kept in-memory on each node,
> it should not become too large. For simpler things like scalar values you can
> simply make parameters part of the closure of a function, or use the
> withParameters(...) method to pass in a configuration.
> {quote}
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