Thanks, Kostas. On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 10:13 PM, Kostas Kloudas < k.klou...@data-artisans.com> wrote:
> Hi Shailesh, > > The pattern operator does not use Flink’s windowing mechanism internally. > Conceptually you may think that there are windows in both, and this is > true, but there > are significant differences that prevent using Flink windowing for CEP. > > The above implies also that using triggers for early firing is not > supported and is far from > trivial to implement. > > Thanks, > Kostas > > > On Dec 19, 2017, at 5:27 PM, Shailesh Jain <shailesh.j...@stellapps.com> > wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > Similar to the way it is exposed in Windows operator, is it possible to > use Triggers inside the Pattern Operator to fire partially matched patterns > (when certain events are very late and we want some level of controlled > early evaluation)? > > > > I assume that Windows are used internally to implement the CEP library, > so wanted to know how much of a work will it be to extend the library to > expose this functionality. > > > > Thanks, > > Shailesh > >
