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Stephan Ewen commented on FLINK-3674:
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I would also like to take a step back here from the pull request.
We have not even decided what approach we want to take. Right now, there are 
two suggestions:

  1. Add an interface and simply get calls on watermarks
  2. Expose timers in all functions.



> Add an interface for EventTime aware User Function
> --------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: FLINK-3674
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-3674
>             Project: Flink
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: Streaming
>    Affects Versions: 1.0.0
>            Reporter: Stephan Ewen
>            Assignee: ramkrishna.s.vasudevan
>
> I suggest to add an interface that UDFs can implement, which will let them be 
> notified upon watermark updates.
> Example usage:
> {code}
> public interface EventTimeFunction {
>     void onWatermark(Watermark watermark);
> }
> public class MyMapper implements MapFunction<String, String>, 
> EventTimeFunction {
>     private long currentEventTime = Long.MIN_VALUE;
>     public String map(String value) {
>         return value + " @ " + currentEventTime;
>     }
>     public void onWatermark(Watermark watermark) {
>         currentEventTime = watermark.getTimestamp();
>     }
> }
> {code}



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