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Ufuk Celebi commented on FLINK-758:
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Yes.
But regarding the group reduce (grouped/ungrouped): I disagree that you can
code the initial value on your own in all cases as your UDF will not be called
if the previous operator did not produce anything, e.g. after a filter.
> Add count method to DataSet and implement CountOperator
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>
> Key: FLINK-758
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-758
> Project: Flink
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: GitHub Import
> Labels: github-import
> Fix For: pre-apache
>
> Attachments: pull-request-758-7518001488867571817.patch
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> At the request of @twalthr. This is the count operator I've implemented some
> time ago to get the to know the new Java API. It introduces
> `DataSet.count()`, which is executed as a map (to ones) and reduce (sum up
> the ones). I initially didn't do the PR, because of the following problem:
> empty DataSets don't work as the first map won't have any input to operate on.
> If more people think that we should include this operator we can think about
> a possible solution to the problem.
> ---------------- Imported from GitHub ----------------
> Url: https://github.com/stratosphere/stratosphere/pull/758
> Created by: [uce|https://github.com/uce]
> Labels: enhancement, java api,
> Milestone: Release 0.6 (unplanned)
> Created at: Tue May 06 10:42:33 CEST 2014
> State: open
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