I think sliding windows are different. In the example in the blog post a window is computed every 30 seconds (so at fixed time intervals). What I want is for a window to be computed every time an event comes in and then once again when the event leaves the window.
On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 10:14 PM, John Sherwood <j...@vt.edu> wrote: > You are looking for sliding windows: > https://flink.apache.org/news/2015/12/04/Introducing-windows.html > > Here you would do > > .timeWindow(Time.seconds(5), Time.seconds(1)) > > On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 12:06 PM, Jonathan Yom-Tov <jon.yom...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> hi, >> >> Is it possible to implement a continuous time window with flink? Here's an >> example. Say I want to count events within a window. The window length is >> 5 >> seconds and I get events at t = 1, 2, 7, 8 seconds. I would then expect to >> get events with a count at t = 1 (count = 1), t = 2 (count = 2), t = 6 >> (count = 1), t = 7 (count = 2), t = 8 (count = 2), t = 12 (count = 1) and >> t >> = 13 (count = 0). >> >> How would I go about doing that?. >> >> thanks, >> Jon. >> > >
