Hi, Ufuk is right, for historical reasons there is currently only the programatic way but I think nothing speaks fundamentally against offering configuration via config in the future (maybe just a lot of config keys must be introduced to cover all options).
Best, Stefan > On 9. Nov 2018, at 22:52, Ufuk Celebi <u...@apache.org> wrote: > > Hey Thomas, > > On Fri, Nov 9, 2018 at 6:07 PM Thomas Weise <t...@apache.org> wrote: >> Is there a way to activate the predefined options via configuration / flink- >> conf.yaml? Or only programmatically, like in [4]? The difficulty with the >> programmatic route (assuming this works now), is that in my case the client >> is Beam and I'm not writing the code that submits the job. > > AFAIK no. You can only do it programmatically at the moment [1]. > Having the option to configure all settings through the configuration > file seems to be a valid feature request to me. > > @Stefan Richter (cc'd): Are there any reasons that speak against > exposing these options via the configuration file in your opinion? > > Best, > > Ufuk > > [1] Looking at the code in [2] and [3], the only options that are > exposed via the configuration file are local directories and the timer > service factory. > [2] > https://github.com/apache/flink/blob/master/flink-state-backends/flink-statebackend-rocksdb/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/contrib/streaming/state/RocksDBOptions.java > [3] > https://github.com/apache/flink/blob/master/flink-state-backends/flink-statebackend-rocksdb/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/contrib/streaming/state/RocksDBStateBackend.java
