Hi Tobias,
On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 7:51 AM, Tobias Feldhaus <
[email protected]> wrote:
> It seems like the documentation [0] about side in- and outputs has missed
> some
> refactoring of the code. I can’t find Max.MaxIntFn() for example, but
> there is a
> new Max.ofIntegers() method that looks like it matches it.
>
You have it correct.
I would love to improve the documentation via a pull-request, but I don’t
> understand this concept well enough to feel confident doing so, yet.
>
We love documentation-improving pull requests!
My intention is to get a
>
> PCollectionView<Long> numOfDays
>
> Which holds the number of elements (days) of a given PCollection<DateTime>
> dates,
> and building it via a sum of counts (as a SingletonView).
>
> Something that corresponds in my head to *wrong*:
>
> dates.apply("Count", Count.globally().asSingletonView());
>
Seems about right.
> Is it possible to access the side input outside of a DoFn?
>
You can access a side input from a DoFn and now also from a
CombineFnWithContext (a bit of an advanced feature).
Kenn
