Can we define a StateFactory (sf) and do those 2 things with it ? (or would
that be a bad practice?)

- update a state with something like partitionAggregate(sf) or
partitionPersist(sf)

- create a newStatic(sf) for querying this state (that we have updated)
later in the topology


On Jun 17, 2014 2:18 AM, "Nathan Marz" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Static state just refers to a state that is not maintained by your Trident
> topology but which you still want to be able to query, so something like a
> database that some other system is responsible for updating.
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 4:21 AM, Carlos Rodriguez <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> We are using Riak as a State to write and read data from different riak
>> buckets. (We are using this code
>> https://github.com/hackreduce/storm-hackathon/blob/master/src/main/java/org/hackreduce/storm/example/riak/RiakBackingMap.java
>> )
>>
>> We first write to a bucket with partitionPersist, which returns a
>> TridentState var, and then we get data from this bucket with the
>> TridentState var returned previously.
>>
>> The problem is that sometimes we just need to read (because another
>> process is filling this bucket with data), so no partitionPersist is done,
>> and therefore we have no TridentState var to get data from that bucket.
>>
>> I've seen in the Trident State API doc (
>> https://github.com/nathanmarz/storm/wiki/Trident-state) a call to
>> topology.newStaticState(), and thought that maybe it would do the trick.
>>
>> I didn't find more info about these "Static" states, so I would like to
>> know what does "Static" means in that context and the difference between
>> this and the TridentState var returned when a partitonPersist() is done.
>>
>> Greetings,
>> Carlos
>>
>
>
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