Hi,
It is for the soon to come streaming fault tolerance purposes - tracking
the records by the unique ID. Currently it is unused.
Best,
Marton
On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 4:20 PM, Aljoscha Krettek <
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wrote:
> Hi,
> why do we have that field? It seems it is not used anywhere. And then,
> as a follow up: why do we have the StreamRecord and
> StreamRecordSerializer at all?
>
> Sorry if this is a stupid question, just getting into flink-streaming
> here... :D
>
> Cheers,
> Aljoscha
>