A general pattern for dynamically adding new aggregations could be something 
like this

        BroadcastStream<AggregationInstructions> broadcastStream = 
aggregationInstructions
            .broadcast(broadcastStateDescriptor);

        DataStream<DataToAggregateEnrichedWithAggregationInstructions> 
streamReadyToAggregate = dataToAggregate
            .connect(broadcastStream)
            .process(new JoinFunction())
            .flatMap(new AddAggregationKeyAndDescriptor)
            .keyBy('aggregationKey')

Where

  *   aggregationInstructions is a stream describing which fields to aggregate 
by.  It might contain a List<String> of the field names and another field which 
can be used to describe what the aggregation is doing.   Example  
groupbyFields=[‘sourceIp’,’sourcePort’,’destIp’,’destPort’], groupingType = 
‘bySession’, action = ‘Add’ or  ‘Delete’
  *   JoinFunction is a KeyedBroadcastProcessFunction which adds the 
groupByFields and groupingType to each message in the dataToAggregate stream 
and possibly deletes groupings from state.
  *   AddAggregationKeyAndDescriptor is a FlatMapFunction which adds 
aggregationKey to the stream based on the value of groupByFields

The flatMap means one message may be emitted several times with different 
values of aggregationKey so it may belong to multiple aggregations.



From: M Singh <mans2si...@yahoo.com>
Sent: Monday, January 24, 2022 9:52 PM
To: Caizhi Weng <tsreape...@gmail.com>; User-Flink <user@flink.apache.org>
Subject: Re: Apache Fink - Adding/Removing KeyedStreams at run time without 
stopping the application

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Hi Caizhi:

Thanks for your reply.

I need to aggregate streams based on dynamic groupings.  All the groupings 
(keyBy) are not known upfront and can be added or removed after the streaming 
application is started and I don't want to restart the application/change the 
code.  So, I wanted to find out, what are the options to achieve this 
functionality.  Please let me know if you have any advice or recommendations.

Thanks

On Monday, January 24, 2022, 04:28:32 AM EST, Caizhi Weng 
<tsreape...@gmail.com<mailto:tsreape...@gmail.com>> wrote:


Hi!

Adding/removing keyed streams will change the topology graph of the job. 
Currently it is not possible to do so without restarting the job and as far as 
I know there is no existing framework/pattern to achieve this.

By the way, why do you need this functionality? Could you elaborate more on 
your use case?

M Singh <mans2si...@yahoo.com<mailto:mans2si...@yahoo.com>> 于2022年1月22日周六 
21:32写道:
Hi Folks:

I am working on an exploratory project in which I would like to add/remove 
KeyedStreams 
(https://nightlies.apache.org/flink/flink-docs-master/docs/dev/datastream/operators/overview/#keyby)
 without restarting the Flink streaming application.

Is it possible natively in Apache Flink ?  If not, is there any 
framework/pattern which can be used to implement this without restarting the 
application/changing the code ?

Thanks








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