Hi guys, I just create a ticket for windowed operators. It is the prerequisite for High-level API and Beam integration.
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 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 +-------------------+ +---------> | WindowedOperator | <--------+ | +--------+----------+ | | ^ ^--------------------------------+ | | | | | | | | +------+--------+ +------+------+ +-------+-----+ +------+-----+ |CombineOperator| |GroupOperator| |KeyedOperator| |JoinOperator| +---------------+ +-------------+ +------+------+ +-----+------+ +---------^ ^ ^ | | | +--------+---+ +-----+----+ +----+----+ |KeyedCombine| |KeyedGroup| | CoGroup | +------------+ +----------+ +---------+ 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. 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. It should support customizable trigger behaviour Outside components: Watermark generator, can be plugged into input source to generate watermark Tuple util components, The operator should be only working on Tuples with schema. It can handle either predefined tuple type or give a declarative API to describe the user defined tuple class 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
