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Aljoscha Krettek commented on FLINK-3674:
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The main reason was not wanting to expose to much because it's not yet clear to
me what would be a good interface for users. You're right, though, that we
could add a {{cancel()}} method. The side reason was that deleting timers can
be very expensive and users might not be aware of it and therefore write slow
programs.
> Add an interface for Time aware User Functions
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>
> 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: Aljoscha Krettek
> Fix For: 1.2.0
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> 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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