Github user aljoscha commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/2020#discussion_r64220867
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flink-streaming-java/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/streaming/api/functions/source/FilePathFilter.java
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+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ * the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+package org.apache.flink.streaming.api.functions.source;
+
+import org.apache.flink.core.fs.Path;
+
+import java.io.Serializable;
+
+/**
+ * An interface to be implemented by the user when using the {@link
FileSplitMonitoringFunction}.
+ * The {@link #filterPath(Path)} method is responsible for deciding if a
path is eligible for further
+ * processing or not. This can serve to exclude temporary or partial files
that
+ * are still being written.
+ *
+ *<p/>
+ * A default implementation is the {@link DefaultFilter} which excludes
files starting with ".", "_", or
+ * contain the "_COPYING_" in their names. This can be retrieved by {@link
DefaultFilter#getInstance()}.
+ * */
+public interface FilePathFilter extends Serializable {
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We should probably make this @PublicEvolving, just to be on the save site.
I can fix it up when merging.
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