Do you want the keys to be unique for a particular value of T or across the
entire collection.

I don't think the latter is possible but someone else can correct me.

For the first it is similar to a FlatMap so you can just do it within the
process function of your DoFn.

On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 1:28 PM Antony Mayi <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> trying to implement a transformer PTransform<PCollection<T>,
> PCollection<KV<Long, T>>> where the output keys would be generated element
> indexes (increasing, unique). What's the best way to implement this before
> the beam stateful DoFn is available?
>
> thx,
> a.
>

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