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ASF GitHub Bot commented on FLINK-3318: --------------------------------------- Github user tttMelody commented on the issue: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/2361 it's an important feature,esper and siddhi all support this.hope to relase as soon as possible > Add support for quantifiers to CEP's pattern API > ------------------------------------------------ > > Key: FLINK-3318 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-3318 > Project: Flink > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: CEP > Affects Versions: 1.0.0 > Reporter: Till Rohrmann > Assignee: Ivan Mushketyk > Priority: Minor > > It would be a good addition to extend the pattern API to support quantifiers > known from regular expressions (e.g. Kleene star, ?, +, or count bounds). > This would considerably enrich the set of supported patterns. > Implementing the count bounds could be done by unrolling the pattern state. > In order to support the Kleene star operator, the {{NFACompiler}} has to be > extended to insert epsilon-transition between a Kleene start state and the > succeeding pattern state. In order to support {{?}}, one could insert two > paths from the preceding state, one which accepts the event and another which > directly goes into the next pattern state. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)