Github user fhueske commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/1255#discussion_r43228263 --- Diff: flink-java/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/api/java/DataSet.java --- @@ -1223,6 +1230,51 @@ public long count() throws Exception { final TypeInformation<K> keyType = TypeExtractor.getKeySelectorTypes(keyExtractor, getType()); return new PartitionOperator<T>(this, PartitionMethod.HASH, new Keys.SelectorFunctionKeys<T, K>(clean(keyExtractor), this.getType(), keyType), Utils.getCallLocationName()); } + + /** + * Range-partitions a DataSet using the specified KeySelector. + * <p> + * <b>Important:</b>This operation shuffles the whole DataSet over the network and can take significant amount of time. + * + * @param keySelector The KeySelector with which the DataSet is range-partitioned. + * @return The partitioned DataSet. + * + * @see KeySelector + */ + public <K extends Comparable<K>> DataSet<T> partitionByRange(KeySelector<T, K> keySelector) { + final TypeInformation<K> keyType = TypeExtractor.getKeySelectorTypes(keySelector, getType()); + String callLocation = Utils.getCallLocationName(); + + // Extract key from input element by keySelector. + KeyExtractorMapper<T, K> keyExtractorMapper = new KeyExtractorMapper<T, K>(keySelector); --- End diff -- Sounds good to me.
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