Hi Mans!
Firstly let’s see how operator’s name and uid is used. AFAIK, operator’s name is used in WebUI and metrics reporting, and uid is used to mark the uniqueness of operator which is useful when you’re using state[1]. > Are there any restrictions on the length of the name and uuid attributes? It’s pretty much the same as you define a string value, so there is no special restrictions on this. > Are there any restrictions on the characters used for name and uuid (blank > spaces, etc) ? I’m not a hundred percent sure about this but I run a testing program and it works fine. > Can the name and uuid be the same ? Yes. But uuids accross operators cannot be same. For me I usually set name and uuid for almost every operator, which gives me better experience in monitoring and scaling. Hope this helps. [1] https://ci.apache.org/projects/flink/flink-docs-stable/ops/upgrading.html#matching-operator-state Best, Jiayi Liao At 2019-11-16 18:35:38, "M Singh" <mans2si...@yahoo.com> wrote: Hi: I am working on a project and wanted to find out what are the best practices for setting name and uuid for operators: 1. Are there any restrictions on the length of the name and uuid attributes ? 2. Are there any restrictions on the characters used for name and uuid (blank spaces, etc) ? 3. Can the name and uuid be the same ? Please let me know if there is any other advice. Thanks Mans