Github user tillrohrmann commented on the pull request: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/1704#issuecomment-199840360 Your 2. proposal looks more natural to me because what you receive as input to a user function is in fact a stream of data. So if this solution is feasible, then I would vote for it.
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