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Kostas Kloudas commented on FLINK-14807:
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I have to think about the whole issue more, but definitely an interface like
the one [~aljoscha] described (like the old and now deleted {{Program}}) could
at least make easier a lot of things. Currently, the only "entrypoint" of
framework to the user code is the {{execute()}} method and this often limits
our alternatives for implementing things.
> Add Table#collect api for fetching data to client
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> Key: FLINK-14807
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-14807
> Project: Flink
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: Table SQL / API
> Affects Versions: 1.9.1
> Reporter: Jeff Zhang
> Priority: Major
> Labels: usability
> Fix For: 1.11.0
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> Currently, it is very unconvinient for user to fetch data of flink job unless
> specify sink expclitly and then fetch data from this sink via its api (e.g.
> write to hdfs sink, then read data from hdfs). However, most of time user
> just want to get the data and do whatever processing he want. So it is very
> necessary for flink to provide api Table#collect for this purpose.
>
> Other apis such as Table#head, Table#print is also helpful.
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