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Jark Wu commented on FLINK-18432: --------------------------------- I think this has already been done by FLINK-17623? > add open and close methods for ElasticsearchSinkFunction interface > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Key: FLINK-18432 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-18432 > Project: Flink > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: Connectors / ElasticSearch > Reporter: rinkako > Priority: Major > Labels: usability > > Here comes a example story: we want to sink data to ES with a day-rolling > index name, by using `DateTimeFormatter` and `ZonedDateTime` for generating a > day-rolling postfix to add to the index pattern of `return > Requests.indexRequest().index("mydoc_"+postfix)` in a custom > `ElasticsearchSinkFunction`. Here `DateTimeFormatter` is not a serializable > class and must be a transient field of this `ElasticsearchSinkFunction`, and > it must be checked null every time we call `process` (since the field is > transient, it may be null at a distributed task manager), which can be done > at a `open` method only run once. > So it seems that add `open` and `close` method of `ElasticsearchSinkFunction` > interface can handle this well, users can control their sink function > life-cycle more flexiblely. And, for compatibility, this two methods may have > a empty default implementation at `ElasticsearchSinkFunction` interface. -- This message was sent by Atlassian Jira (v8.3.4#803005)