Is there a way to close a window when an input element has a flag value in the side output of a DoFn? E.g. event which indicates closing of a session closes the window.
I've been reading the docs, and triggers are time based mostly. An example would be great.
Edit: Trigger.OnElementContext.forTrigger(ExecutableTrigger trigger) seems promising but ExecutableTrigger docs are pretty slim at the moment.
I don't think that this is available. There is only one Data Driven Trigger right now, elementCountAtLeast.
https://cloud.google.com/dataflow/model/triggers#data-driven-triggers
A work around for this would be to copy the sessions window function code and write a custom window function.
In short, you keep assigning elements into the same window, until you see your terminating element. Then start creating a new window.
At present, there is no way to trigger off the content of an element, unfortunately. From the Apache Beam Docs:
Beam provides one data-driven trigger,
AfterPane.elementCountAtLeast(). This trigger works on an element count; it fires after the current pane has collected at least N elements.
There is currently an open ticket for more robust data-driver triggers. However (again, at present), it appears that the Beam team is filling out use-cases for data-driven triggers one at a time (i.e. element count or timestamp), as opposed to adding broad-based support for triggering off arbitrary values within an element.
An ExecutableTrigger wraps a Trigger object for execution. See ExecutableTrigger docs.
来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/43035302/close-window-after-based-on-element-value