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ASF GitHub Bot commented on FLINK-3657:
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Github user andrewpalumbo commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/1829#issuecomment-200413224
This method would be very useful to us, e.g., when assigning ordinal
indices to the elements of a `DataSet` from an external mapping. I would not
think that this is too specific a use case.
> Change access of DataSetUtils.countElements() to 'public'
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> Key: FLINK-3657
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-3657
> Project: Flink
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: DataSet API
> Affects Versions: 1.0.0
> Reporter: Suneel Marthi
> Assignee: Suneel Marthi
> Priority: Minor
> Fix For: 1.0.1
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> The access of DatasetUtils.countElements() is presently 'private', change
> that to be 'public'. We happened to be replicating the functionality in our
> project and realized the method already existed in Flink.
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