Github user aljoscha commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/308#issuecomment-102077233
I think the consensus was that we don't want to have such a method in the
DataSet API. We can, however, put a utility for this in flink-contrib. This
utility should work for both batch and streaming? Any other opinions? Please
correct me if I'm wrong.
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