Apache flink 0.10 how to get the first occurrence of a composite key from an unlimited input data stream?

Question

I am new to apache flink. I have an unrelated data stream at my input (served in flink 0.10 via kakfa).

I want to get the first occurrence of each primary key (the primary key is contract_num and event_dt).
These "duplicates" occur almost immediately after each other. The source system cannot filter this for me, so flink has to do this.

Here is my input:
contract_num, event_dt, attr
A1, 2016-02-24 10:25:08, X
A1, 2016-02-24 10:25:08, Y
A1, 2016-02-24 10:25:09 , Z
A2, 2016-02-24 10:25:10, C

Here is the output that I want:
A1, 2016-02-24 10:25:08, X
A1, 2016-02-24 10:25:09, Z
A2, 2016-02-24 10:25:10, C

note that the second line has been deleted since the key combination A001 and '2016-02-24 10:25:08' have already occurred on the 1st line.

how can i do this with flink 0.10?

I was thinking about using keyBy (0,1)
but after that I don't know what to do!

(I used joda-time and org.flinkspector to install these tests).

@Test
public void test() {
    DateTime threeSecondsAgo = (new DateTime()).minusSeconds(3);
    DateTime twoSecondsAgo = (new DateTime()).minusSeconds(2);
    DateTime oneSecondsAgo = (new DateTime()).minusSeconds(2);

    DataStream<Tuple3<String, Date, String>> testStream =
            createTimedTestStreamWith(
                    Tuple3.of("A1", threeSecondsAgo.toDate(), "X"))
            .emit(Tuple3.of("A1", threeSecondsAgo.toDate(), "Y"), after(0, TimeUnit.NANOSECONDS))
            .emit(Tuple3.of("A1", twoSecondsAgo.toDate(), "Z"), after(0, TimeUnit.NANOSECONDS))
            .emit(Tuple3.of("A2", oneSecondsAgo.toDate(), "C"), after(0, TimeUnit.NANOSECONDS))
            .close();

    testStream.keyBy(0,1);
}

Answer 1

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public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
    StreamExecutionEnvironment env = StreamExecutionEnvironment.getExecutionEnvironment();

    DataStream<Tuple3<String, Date, String>> input = env.fromElements(Tuple3.of("foo", new Date(1000), "bar"), Tuple3.of("foo", new Date(1000), "foobar"));

    input.keyBy(0, 1).flatMap(new DuplicateFilter()).print();

    env.execute("Test");
}

DuplicateFilter Flink.

>= 1.0

public static class DuplicateFilter extends RichFlatMapFunction<Tuple3<String, Date, String>, Tuple3<String, Date, String>> {

    static final ValueStateDescriptor<Boolean> descriptor = new ValueStateDescriptor<>("seen", Boolean.class, false);
    private ValueState<Boolean> operatorState;

    @Override
    public void open(Configuration configuration) {
        operatorState = this.getRuntimeContext().getState(descriptor);
    }

    @Override
    public void flatMap(Tuple3<String, Date, String> value, Collector<Tuple3<String, Date, String>> out) throws Exception {
        if (!operatorState.value()) {
            // we haven't seen the element yet
            out.collect(value);
            // set operator state to true so that we don't emit elements with this key again
            operatorState.update(true);
        }
    }
}

0.10

public static class DuplicateFilter extends RichFlatMapFunction<Tuple3<String, Date, String>, Tuple3<String, Date, String>> {

    private OperatorState<Boolean> operatorState;

    @Override
    public void open(Configuration configuration) {
        operatorState = this.getRuntimeContext().getKeyValueState("seen", Boolean.class, false);
    }

    @Override
    public void flatMap(Tuple3<String, Date, String> value, Collector<Tuple3<String, Date, String>> out) throws Exception {
        if (!operatorState.value()) {
            // we haven't seen the element yet
            out.collect(value);
            operatorState.update(true);
        }
    }
}

:

input.keyBy(0, 1).timeWindow(Time.seconds(1)).apply(new WindowFunction<Iterable<Tuple3<String,Date,String>>, Tuple3<String, Date, String>, Tuple, TimeWindow>() {
    @Override
    public void apply(Tuple tuple, TimeWindow window, Iterable<Tuple3<String, Date, String>> input, Collector<Tuple3<String, Date, String>> out) throws Exception {
        out.collect(input.iterator().next());
    }
})

Answer 2

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package com.dataartisans.filters;

import com.google.common.cache.CacheBuilder;
import com.google.common.cache.CacheLoader;
import com.google.common.cache.LoadingCache;
import org.apache.flink.api.common.functions.RichFilterFunction;
import org.apache.flink.api.java.functions.KeySelector;
import org.apache.flink.configuration.Configuration;
import org.apache.flink.streaming.api.checkpoint.CheckpointedAsynchronously;

import java.io.Serializable;
import java.util.HashSet;
import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;


/**
 * This class filters duplicates that occur within a configurable time of each other in a data stream.
 */
public class DedupeFilterFunction<T, K extends Serializable> extends RichFilterFunction<T> implements CheckpointedAsynchronously<HashSet<K>> {

  private LoadingCache<K, Boolean> dedupeCache;
  private final KeySelector<T, K> keySelector;
  private final long cacheExpirationTimeMs;

  /**
   * @param cacheExpirationTimeMs The expiration time for elements in the cache
   */
  public DedupeFilterFunction(KeySelector<T, K> keySelector, long cacheExpirationTimeMs){
    this.keySelector = keySelector;
    this.cacheExpirationTimeMs = cacheExpirationTimeMs;
  }

  @Override
  public void open(Configuration parameters) throws Exception {
    createDedupeCache();
  }


  @Override
  public boolean filter(T value) throws Exception {
    K key = keySelector.getKey(value);
    boolean seen = dedupeCache.get(key);
    if (!seen) {
      dedupeCache.put(key, true);
      return true;
    } else {
      return false;
    }
  }

  @Override
  public HashSet<K> snapshotState(long checkpointId, long checkpointTimestamp) throws Exception {
    return new HashSet<>(dedupeCache.asMap().keySet());
  }

  @Override
  public void restoreState(HashSet<K> state) throws Exception {
    createDedupeCache();
    for (K key : state) {
      dedupeCache.put(key, true);
    }
  }

  private void createDedupeCache() {
    dedupeCache = CacheBuilder.newBuilder()
      .expireAfterWrite(cacheExpirationTimeMs, TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS)
      .build(new CacheLoader<K, Boolean>() {
        @Override
        public Boolean load(K k) throws Exception {
          return false;
        }
      });
  }
}