Hi Aljoscha, If that is the only case, I need to return TriggerResult.CONTINUE when time > window.maxTimestamp.
It is very fortunate that onEventTime is not called when time < window.maxTimestamp except my timer. Thanks a lot for your quick reply. Best, - Dongwon 2018. 7. 23. 오후 10:58, Aljoscha Krettek <aljos...@apache.org> 작성: > Hi, > > If you set an allowed lateness that is greater than zero you will get another > call to onEventTime() on window.maxTimestamp + allowedLateness. > > Does that help answer your question? > > Best, > Aljoscha > >> On 23. Jul 2018, at 15:40, Dongwon Kim <eastcirc...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> I want to be sure about when EventTimeTrigger.onEventTime() method is called >> with event-time session windows. >> It returns TriggerResult.FIRE only when the timestamp of the registered >> timer equals to the max timestamp of the current window: >> >> @Override >> public TriggerResult onEventTime(long time, TimeWindow window, >> TriggerContext ctx) { >> return time == window.maxTimestamp() ? >> TriggerResult.FIRE : >> TriggerResult.CONTINUE; >> } >> >> As far as I understand, when EventTimeTrigger is used with event-time >> session window, there's no chance of EventTimeTrigger.onEventTime being >> called with time != window.maxTimestamp. >> Is it true? If not, could anyone let me know the corner case? >> >> The reason why I'm asking is because I want to register an event-time timer >> when my custom trigger receives a special event which signifies the end of a >> session. >> The timestamp of the registered timer is not going to be equal to >> window.maxTimestamp and I want to return Trigger.Result.FIRE_AND_PURGE in >> such a case. >> As I also want to purge the content of a window when it expires, onEventTime >> should look like this: >> >> @Override >> public TriggerResult onEventTime(long time, TimeWindow window, >> TriggerContext ctx) { >> return TriggerResult.FIRE_AND_PURGE; >> } >> >> It will return FIRE_AND_PURGE every time MyTrigger.onEventTime is called. >> It looks quite dangerous and I'm not quite sure about that. >> >> - Dongwon >> >