Very good, you are absolutely right. :D
> On 04 Feb 2016, at 05:07, Nirmalya Sengupta
> wrote:
>
> on
Hello Aljoscha ,
I have checked again with the (fantastic) blog here:
https://flink.apache.org/news/2015/12/04/Introducing-windows.html
and I have come to understand that the contents of a window-buffer must be
disposed of *only* after the User-defined evaluation function has
seen and used them al
Hello Aljoscha ,
Many thanks for the explanation. Referring to the flow from your response:
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1. Trigger fires
2. Evictor is called if it exists
3. Elements are evicted from window buffer if evictor returned number > 0
4. User-provide
Hi Nirmalya,
the result of Evictor.evict() is used internally by the window operator. The
flow is as follows:
1. Trigger fires
2. Evictor is called if it exists
3. Elements are evicted from window buffer if evictor returned number > 0
4. User-provided window function is called to emit window resul
Hello Till ,
>From your prompt reply:
'... the CountTrigger *always* works together with the CountEvictor which
will make sure that only .. ' - that explains it. Thanks. I missed it.
A related question I have is this:
Between the PURGE facility of Trigger and REMOVAL facility of Evictor, is
th
Hi Nirmalya,
the CountTrigger always works together with the CountEvictor which will
make sure that only count elements are kept in the window. Evictors can
evict elements from the window after the trigger event. That is the reason
why the CountTrigger does not have to purge the window explicitly.
