Re: How to interact with a running flink application?

Posted by Ufuk Celebi on
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Hey Anchit,

the usual recommendation for this is to use a CoMap/CoFlatMap
operator, where the second input are the lookup location changes. You
can then use this input to update the location.

Search for CoMap/CoFlatMap here:
https://ci.apache.org/projects/flink/flink-docs-master/dev/datastream_api.html#datastream-transformations

Best,

Ufuk

On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 9:37 AM, Anchit Jatana
<[hidden email]> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> Brief: I have a use case where I need to interact with a running flink
> application.
>
> Detail:
>
> My Flink application has a Kafka source, an operator processing on the
> content received from the Kafka stream(this operator is using a lookup from
> an external source file to accomplish the processing of the Kafka content).
> If the content of the file kept at the same source location changes, I need
> to notify the operator to update its lookup content loaded in the memory and
> continue its processing of Kafka content with the new loaded lookup content
> without stopping the Flink application.
>
> Is there a way where I can "interact with the running Flink Application"
> through some event or something to notify the application to make some
> changes in its operation without stopping the application.
>
> Thank you!
>
> Regards,
> Anchit