Hi Chamikara,
>>- why not make this part of the pipeline options? does it really
>> need to vary from transform to transform?
>>
>> It's possible for the same pipeline to connect to multiple expansion
> services, to use transforms from more than one SDK language and/or version.
>
Hi Chad,
This stub will only be replaced by the Dataflow service. It's an artifact of
the pre-portability era.
That said, we now have the option to replace ReadFromPubSub with an external
transform which would utilize Java's PubSubIO via the new cross-language
feature.
Thanks,
Max
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