Github user ishark commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/incubator-apex-core/pull/250#discussion_r57506922
--- Diff: api/src/main/java/com/datatorrent/api/DAG.java ---
@@ -250,6 +250,24 @@
public abstract <T> void setAttribute(Operator operator, Attribute<T>
key, T value);
/**
+ * Set affinity between operators
+ * @param locality
+ * @param relaxLocality
+ * @param first operator
+ * @param one or more operators
+ */
+ public abstract void setAffinity(Locality locality, boolean
relaxLocality, String firstOperator, String... operators);
--- End diff --
Yes, the affinity/anti-affinity can be set from attributes directly. These
were added as convenience methods as per discussion on dev mailing list. Here
are sample usages with these methods:
https://github.com/ishark/Apex-Samples/blob/master/affinity-example/src/main/java/com/example/affinity/ApplicationDagAPIs.java#L33-L34
Compared to when setting via attributes:
https://github.com/ishark/Apex-Samples/blob/master/affinity-example/src/main/java/com/example/affinity/ApplicationDagContext.java#L42-L54
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