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Fabian Hueske commented on FLINK-834:
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Exactly, it would be syntactic sugar for ingesting a formatting MapFunction<InType, String> before a sink.
> Extend writeAsText with custom formatting function.
> ---------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: FLINK-834
> URL:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-834> Project: Flink
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: GitHub Import
> Labels: github-import
> Fix For: pre-apache
>
>
> Currently, write as text uses the `toString()` method of data types to serialize the output as text. Alternatively, we have a CSV format that writes Tuple Datasets by using the `toString()` methods of the individual fields. Since Tuple's `toString()` method cannot be adapted without extending the class, it is not easily possible to define a custom output format of data sets which include Tuples.
> I think it would be good to have a way to explicitly format a text output.
> We could add a formatting function that returns a String for an input element, such as
> ```
> DataSet<Tuple2<String, MyPojo>> myDS;
> myDS.writeAsFormattedText("hdfs:///myOutPath",
> new TextFormatter<Tuple2<String, MyPojo>>() {
> @Override
> public String format(Tuple2<String, MyPojo> input) {
> return input.f0+" -> "+
> input.f1.getWhatEver()+" and "+
> input.f1.getSomethingElse();
> });
> ```
> Internally, we would use the default TextOutputFormat but with a previous Map for formatting.
> ---------------- Imported from GitHub ----------------
> Url:
https://github.com/stratosphere/stratosphere/issues/834> Created by: [fhueske|
https://github.com/fhueske]
> Labels: enhancement, java api, simple-issue, user satisfaction,
> Milestone: Release 0.6 (unplanned)
> Created at: Mon May 19 14:39:51 CEST 2014
> State: open
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