Github user zentol commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/3741#discussion_r114503212 --- Diff: flink-streaming-java/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/streaming/api/environment/StreamExecutionEnvironment.java --- @@ -1776,8 +1787,45 @@ public static void setDefaultLocalParallelism(int parallelism) { protected static void initializeContextEnvironment(StreamExecutionEnvironmentFactory ctx) { contextEnvironmentFactory = ctx; } - + protected static void resetContextEnvironment() { contextEnvironmentFactory = null; } + + /** + * Registers a file at the distributed cache under the given name. The file will be accessible + * from any user-defined function in the (distributed) runtime under a local path. Files + * may be local files (as long as all relevant workers have access to it), or files in a distributed file system. + * The runtime will copy the files temporarily to a local cache, if needed. + * <p> + * The {@link org.apache.flink.api.common.functions.RuntimeContext} can be obtained inside UDFs via + * {@link org.apache.flink.api.common.functions.RichFunction#getRuntimeContext()} and provides access + * {@link org.apache.flink.api.common.cache.DistributedCache} via + * {@link org.apache.flink.api.common.functions.RuntimeContext#getDistributedCache()}. + * + * @param filePath The path of the file, as a URI (e.g. "file:///some/path" or "hdfs://host:port/and/path") + * @param name The name under which the file is registered. + */ + public void registerCachedFile(String filePath, String name){ --- End diff -- missing space before `{`.
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