Till Rohrmann created FLINK-3216: ------------------------------------ Summary: Define pattern specification Key: FLINK-3216 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-3216 Project: Flink Issue Type: Sub-task Reporter: Till Rohrmann
In order to detect event patterns we first have to define the pattern. This issue tracks the progress of implementing a user facing API to define event patterns. Patterns should support the following operations * next(): The given event has to follow directly after the preceding event followedBy(): The given event has to follow the preceding event. There might occur other events in-between * every(): In a follow-by relationship a starting event can be matched with multiple successive events. Consider the pattern a → b where → denotes the follow-by relationship. The event sequence a, b, b can be matched as a, b or a, (b), b where the first b is left out. The essential question is whether a is allowed to match multiple times or only the first time. The method every specifies exactly that. Every events in a pattern can match with multiple successive events. This makes only sense in a follow-by relationship, though. * followedByEvery(): Similar to followedBy just that the specified element can be matched with multiple successive events * or(): Alternative event which can be matched instead of the original event: every(“e1”).where().or(“e2”).where() * within(): Defines a time interval in which the pattern has to be completed, otherwise an incomplete pattern can be emitted (timeout case) -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)