Thanks Max - Especially the last part about late events. Sameer
On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 4:23 AM, Maximilian Michels <m...@apache.org> wrote: > Hi Sameer, > > That depends on the time characteristic you have chosen. If you have > set it to event time [1] then it will use event time, otherwise the > default is to use processing time. > > When using event time, the element's timestamp is used to assign it to > the specified time windows in the patterns, regardless of the time it > actually arrives. The only exception being if the element arrives > after the Watermark, then only the single element will be processed > according to the patterns. > > Cheers, > Max > > [1] env.setStreamTimeCharacteristic(TimeCharacteristic.EventTime); > > On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 12:39 AM, Sameer W <sam...@axiomine.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am using EventTime but when the records get into the CEP PatternStream > > does the WITHIN interval refer to the wall clock time or the timestamps > > embedded in the event stream? > > > > If I provide WITHIN(Time.Seconds(5)) and in processing time I am getting > > events with timestamps in the range of 10 seconds (due to upstream > emits), > > are all those events considered part of the pattern of their timestamps > > matter? > > > > Thanks, > > Sameer >