DataSource vs DataSet

[Flavio Pompermaier]

Hi flinkers,
I have a very simple question for you after the reading of the amazing blog page posted by Nezih Yigitbasi at http://t.co/dCDfFf6DhW (that shows how to integrate Flink and Avro-Parquet through Kite SDK).

Is there any code style policy about when to use DataSource or when to use DataSet as the type of an input source? I usually use DataSet but I could use DataSource as well..is there any reason to prefer the first over the second? 

Best,

Flavio

[Stephan Ewen]

Hi!

They are really the same. The DataSource is the subclass of DataSet which is used when sou do a source operation (env.readTextFile(...) returns a DataSource for example).

Greetings,

Stephan

On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 11:23 AM, Flavio Pompermaier <[hidden email]> wrote:

Hi flinkers,
I have a very simple question for you after the reading of the amazing blog page posted by Nezih Yigitbasi at http://t.co/dCDfFf6DhW (that shows how to integrate Flink and Avro-Parquet through Kite SDK).

Is there any code style policy about when to use DataSource or when to use DataSet as the type of an input source? I usually use DataSet but I could use DataSource as well..is there any reason to prefer the first over the second? 

Best,

Flavio