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Bowen Li commented on FLINK-10168:
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On a second thought to extend my comment on making this function similar to
message queues' start position function, I feel defining it as a filter API
would make it actually more complex than user anticipation.
How about just providing a {{startPosition}} param to {{readFile() API}} to
make it as simple as those in Flink's Kinesis/Kafka consumers? [~kkl0u]
[~fhueske]
This way, it also might be even easier for Flink's SQL to parse when we need to
add SQL file sources in the future.
> support filtering files by modified/created time in
> StreamExecutionEnvironment.readFile()
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> Key: FLINK-10168
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-10168
> Project: Flink
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: DataStream API
> Affects Versions: 1.6.0
> Reporter: Bowen Li
> Assignee: Bowen Li
> Priority: Major
> Fix For: 1.7.0
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> support filtering files by modified/created time in
> {{StreamExecutionEnvironment.readFile()}}
> for example, in a source dir with lots of file, we only want to read files
> that is created or modified after a specific time.
> This API can expose a generic filter function of files, and let users define
> filtering rules. Currently Flink only supports filtering files by path. What
> this means is that, currently the API is
> {{FileInputFormat.setFilesFilters(PathFiter)}} that takes only one file path
> filter. A more generic API that can take more filters can look like this 1)
> {{FileInputFormat.setFilesFilters(List (PathFiter, ModifiedTileFilter, ...
> ))}}
> 2) or {{FileInputFormat.setFilesFilters(FileFiter),}} and {{FileFilter}}
> exposes all file attributes that Flink's file system can provide, like path
> and modified time
> I lean towards the 2nd option, because it gives users more flexibility to
> define complex filtering rules based on combinations of file attributes.
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