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David Yan commented on APEXMALHAR-2085: --------------------------------------- I'm in the process of designing the API. I would like to start a quick discussion on whether we should use API from other libraries for our API. We already know that we need interfaces for things like the window policy, the triggering policy, the storage, the aggregation, functions that extract timestamp and key, etc. There are interfaces from Beam, Guava, etc., that let you specify some of those things. Some of them are complex (like windowing policy) and some of them are simple (like the function interface). Should we mirror (or duplicate) their interfaces in our API or just use their interfaces directly? Please provide your feedback. > Implement Windowed Operators > ---------------------------- > > Key: APEXMALHAR-2085 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/APEXMALHAR-2085 > Project: Apache Apex Malhar > Issue Type: New Feature > Reporter: Siyuan Hua > Assignee: David Yan > > As per our recent several discussions in the community. A group of Windowed > Operators that delivers the window semantic follows the google Data Flow > model(https://cloud.google.com/dataflow/) is very important. > The operators should be designed and implemented in a way for > High-level API > Beam translation > Easy to use with other popular operator > {panel:title=Operator Hierarchy} > Hierarchy of the operators, > The windowed operators should cover all possible transformations that require > window, and batch processing is also considered as special window called > global window > {code} > +-------------------+ > +---------> | WindowedOperator | <--------+ > | +--------+----------+ | > | ^ ^--------------------------------+ > | | | | > | | | | > +------+--------+ +------+------+ +-------+-----+ +------+-----+ > |CombineOperator| |GroupOperator| |KeyedOperator| |JoinOperator| > +---------------+ +-------------+ +------+------+ +-----+------+ > +---------^ ^ ^ > | | | > +--------+---+ +-----+----+ +----+----+ > |KeyedCombine| |KeyedGroup| | CoGroup | > +------------+ +----------+ +---------+ > {code} > Combine operation includes all operations that combine all tuples in one > window into one or small number of tuples, Group operation group all tuples > in one window, Join and CoGroup are used to join and group tuples from > different inputs. > {panel} > {panel:title=Components} > * Window Component > It includes configuration, window state that should be checkpointed, etc. It > should support NonMergibleWindow(fixed or slide) MergibleWindow(Session) > * Trigger > It should support early trigger, late trigger with customizable trigger > behaviour > * Other related components: > ** Watermark generator, can be plugged into input source to generate watermark > ** Tuple schema support: > It should handle either predefined tuple type or give a declarative API to > describe the user defined tuple class > {panel} > Most component API should be reused in High-Level API > This is the umbrella ticket, separate tickets would be created for different > components and operators respectively -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)