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Ethan Li edited comment on FLINK-16517 at 3/11/20, 1:31 AM: ------------------------------------------------------------ [~aljoscha] Thanks for the link. I feel like it's still not simple enough for starters. I am looking for a very simple example so starters can focus on making their first flink job running. WordCount example is a like a hello-world program in streaming. We can modify current WordCount example to take a new option so a new Source can generate data randomly. It will not change the current code too much. was (Author: ethanli): [~aljoscha] Thanks for the link. I feel like it's still not simple enough for starters. I am looking for a very simple example so starters can focus on making their first flink job running. WordCount example is a like a hello-world program in streaming. We can modify current WordCount example to take a new option so a new Source can generate data randomly. It will change the current code too much. > Add a long running WordCount example > ------------------------------------ > > Key: FLINK-16517 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-16517 > Project: Flink > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: Examples > Reporter: Ethan Li > Priority: Minor > > As far as I know, flink doesn't have a long running WordCount example for > users to start with or doing some simple tests. > The closest one is SocketWindowWordCount. But it requires setting up a server > (nc -l ), which is not hard, but still tedious for simple use cases. And it > requires human input for the job to actually run. > I propose to add or modify current WordCount example to have a SourceFunction > that randomly generates input data based on a set of sentences, so the > WordCount job can run forever. The generation ratio will be configurable. > This will be the easiest way to start a long running flink job and can be > useful for new users to start using flink quickly, or for developers to test > flink easily. -- This message was sent by Atlassian Jira (v8.3.4#803005)