Javier
sorry to jumping in, but I think your case is very similar to what I am
trying to achieve in the thread just next to yours (called "Watermarks as
"process completion" flags". I also need to process a stream which is
produced for some time, but then take an action after certain event. Also
window doesn't work for me because in my case stream producing data for 4-5
hours and I need to evaluate it continuously but then finalize upon
receiving certain "least event".
I am thinking that existing checkpointing would be very helpful as it
solves exactly this task but internally. If you'd be able to emit "special"
checkpoint in source and then react on it at the end of processing chain,
do you think you could solve your task?
On Fri, Nov 27, 2015 at 4:29 PM, Lopez, Javier <javier.lo...@zalando.de>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Thanks for the example. We have done it with windows before and it works.
> We are using state because the data comes with a gap of several days and we
> can't handle a window size of several days. That's why we decided to use
> the state.
>
> On 27 November 2015 at 11:09, Aljoscha Krettek <aljos...@apache.org>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> I’ll try to go into a bit more detail about the windows here. What you
>> can do is this:
>>
>> DataStream<Tuple3<String, Double, Long>> input = … // fields are (id,
>> sum, count), where count is initialized to 1, similar to word count
>>
>> DataStream<Tuple3<String, Double, Long>> counts = input
>> .keyBy(0)
>> .timeWindow(Time.minutes(10))
>> .reduce(new MyCountingReducer())
>>
>> DataStream<Tuple3<String, Double, Long>> result = counts.map( <mapper
>> that divides sum by count> )
>>
>> Does this help? Here, you don’t even have to deal with state, the
>> windowing system will keep the state (i.e. the reduced) value in internal
>> state in a fault tolerant fashion.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Aljoscha
>> > On 26 Nov 2015, at 17:14, Stephan Ewen <se...@apache.org> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hi!
>> >
>> > In streaming, there is no "end" of the stream when you would emit the
>> final sum. That's why there are windows.
>> >
>> > If you do not want the partial sums, but only the final sum, you need
>> to define what window in which the sum is computed. At the end of that
>> window, that value is emitted. The window can be based on time, counts, or
>> other measures.
>> >
>> > Greetings,
>> > Stephan
>> >
>> >
>> > On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 4:07 PM, Lopez, Javier <javier.lo...@zalando.de>
>> wrote:
>> > Hi, thanks for the answer. It worked but not in the way we expected. We
>> expect to have only one sum per ID and we are getting all the consecutive
>> sums, for example:
>> >
>> > We expect this: (11,6) but we get this (11,1) (11,3) (11,6) (the
>> initial values are ID -> 11, values -> 1,2,3). Here is the code we are
>> using for our test:
>> >
>> > DataStream<T
>> > uple2<String, Double>> stream = ...;
>> >
>> >
>> > DataStream<Tuple4<String, Double, Long, Double>> result =
>> stream.keyBy(0).map(new RollingSum());
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > public static class RollingSum extends RichMapFunction<Tuple2<String,
>> Double>, Tuple4<String, Double, Long, Double>> {
>> >
>> > // persistent counter
>> > private OperatorState<Double> sum;
>> > private OperatorState<Long> count;
>> >
>> >
>> > @Override
>> > public Tuple4<String, Double, Long, Double> map(Tuple2<String,
>> Double> value1) {
>> > try {
>> > Double newSum = sum.value()+value1.f1;
>> >
>> > sum.update(newSum);
>> > count.update(count.value()+1);
>> > return new Tuple4<String, Double, Long,
>> Double>(value1.f0,sum.value(),count.value(),sum.value()/count.value());
>> > } catch (IOException e) {
>> > // TODO Auto-generated catch block
>> > e.printStackTrace();
>> > }
>> >
>> > return null;
>> >
>> > }
>> >
>> > @Override
>> > public void open(Configuration config) {
>> > sum = getRuntimeContext().getKeyValueState("mySum",
>> Double.class, 0D);
>> > count = getRuntimeContext().getKeyValueState("myCounter",
>> Long.class, 0L);
>> > }
>> >
>> > }
>> >
>> >
>> > We are using a Tuple4 because we want to calculate the sum and the
>> average (So our Tuple is ID, SUM, Count, AVG). Do we need to add another
>> step to get a single value out of it? or is this the expected behavior.
>> >
>> > Thanks again for your help.
>> >
>> > On 25 November 2015 at 17:19, Stephan Ewen <se...@apache.org> wrote:
>> > Hi Javier!
>> >
>> > You can solve this both using windows, or using manual state.
>> >
>> > What is better depends a bit on when you want to have the result (the
>> sum). Do you want a result emitted after each update (or do some other
>> operation with that value) or do you want only the final sum after a
>> certain time?
>> >
>> > For the second variant, I would use a window, for the first variant,
>> you could use custom state as follows:
>> >
>> > For each element, you take the current state for the key, add the value
>> to get the new sum. Then you update the state with the new sum and emit the
>> value as well...
>> >
>> > Java:
>> >
>> > DataStream<T
>> > uple2<String, Long>> stream = ...;
>> >
>> >
>> > DataStream<Tuple2<String, Long>> result = stream.keyBy(0).map(new
>> RollingSum());
>> >
>> >
>> > public
>> > class RollingSum extends RichMapFunction<Tuple2<String, Long>,
>> Tuple2<String, Long>> {
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > private OperatorState<Long> sum;
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > @Override
>> >
>> >
>> > public Tuple2<String, Long> map(Tuple2<String, Long> value) {
>> > long
>> > newSum = sum.value() + value.f1;
>> >
>> > sum.update(newSum);
>> >
>> >
>> > return new Tuple2<>(value.f0, newSum);
>> >
>> >
>> > }
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > @Override
>> >
>> >
>> > public void open(Configuration config) {
>> >
>> >
>> > counter = getRuntimeContext().getKeyValueState("myCounter", Long.class,
>> 0L);
>> >
>> >
>> > }
>> > }
>> >
>> >
>> > In Scala, you can write this briefly as:
>> >
>> > val stream: DataStream[(String, Int)] = ...
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > val counts: DataStream[(String, Int)] = stream
>> >
>> >
>> > .keyBy(_._1)
>> >
>> >
>> > .mapWithState((in: (String, Int), sum: Option[Int])
>> > => {
>> >
>> > val newSum = in._2 + sum.getOrElse(0)
>> >
>> > ( (
>> > in._1, newSum), Some(newSum) )
>> > }
>> >
>> > Does that help?
>> >
>> > Thanks also for pointing out the error in the sample code...
>> >
>> > Greetings,
>> > Stephan
>> >
>> >
>> > On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 4:55 PM, Lopez, Javier <javier.lo...@zalando.de>
>> wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > We are trying to do a test using States but we have not been able to
>> achieve our desired result. Basically we have a data stream with data as
>> [{"id":"11","value":123}] and we want to calculate the sum of all values
>> grouping by ID. We were able to achieve this using windows but not with
>> states. The example that is in the documentation (
>> https://ci.apache.org/projects/flink/flink-docs-master/apis/streaming_guide.html#working-with-state)
>> is not very clear and even has some errors, for example:
>> >
>> > public class CounterSum implements RichReduceFunction<Long>
>> > should be
>> > public class CounterSum extends RichReduceFunction<Long>
>> > as RichReduceFuncion is a Class, not an interface.
>> >
>> > We wanted to ask you if you have an example of how to use States with
>> Flink.
>> >
>> > Thanks in advance for your help.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>
