Hi Dominik,
at the moment the AfterMatchSkipStrategy are only applied to fully matching
sequences. In case of timeouts, the AfterMatchSkipStrategy will be ignored
because technically it is not a match.
Cheers,
Till
On Mon, Mar 16, 2020 at 5:39 PM Dominik Wosiński <wos...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hey all,
>
> I was wondering whether for CEP the *AfterMatchSkipStrategy *is applied
> during matching or if simply the results are removed after the match. The
> question is the result of the experiments I was doing with CEP. Say I have
> the readings from some sensor and I want to detect events over some
> threshold. So I have something like below:
>
> Pattern.begin[AccelVector]("beginning",
> AfterMatchSkipStrategy.skipPastLastEvent())
> .where(_.data() < Threshold)
> .optional
> .followedBy(EventPatternName)
> .where(event => event.data() >= Threshold)
> .oneOrMore
> .greedy
> .consecutive()
> .followedBy("end")
> .where(_.data() < Threshold)
> .oneOrMore
> .within(Time.minutes(1))
>
>
> The thing is that sometimes sensors may stop sending data or the data is
> lost so I would like to emit events that have technically timed out. I have
> created a PatternProcessFunction that simply gets events that have timed
> out and check for *EventPatternName* part.
>
> It works fine, but I have noticed weird behavior that the events that get
> passed to the *processTimedOutMatch *are repeated as if there was no
> *AfterMatchSkipStrategy.*
>
> So, for example say the Threshold=200, and I have the following events for
> one of the sensors:
> Event1 (timestamp= 1, data = 10)
> Event2 (timestamp= 2, data = 250)
> Event3 (timestamp= 3, data = 300)
> Event4 (timestamp= 4, data = 350)
> Event5 (timestamp= 5, data = 400)
> Event6 (timestamp= 6, data = 450)
>
> After that, this sensor stops sending data but others are sending data so
> the watermark is progressing - this obviously causes timeout of the
> pattern. And the issue I have is the fact that *processTimedOutMatch* gets
> called multiple times, first for the whole pattern Event1 to Event6 and
> each call just skips one event so next, I have Event2 to Event 6, Event3 to
> Event6 up to just Event6.
>
> My understanding is that *AfterMatchSkipStrategy *should wipe out those
> partial matches or does it work differently for timed out matches?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Best Regards,
> Dom.
>
