Github user bowenli86 commented on the issue:
https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/6130
@aljoscha
Motivation: We have the requirements to read a bunch files, each file to
read multiple times, to feed our streams
Specifically we need `StreamExecutionEnvironment.readFile/readTextFile` to
be able to read a file for a specified `N` times, but currently it only
supports reading file once.
We've implemented this internally. Would be good to get it back to the
community version. This jira is to add support for the feature.
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