What is the method for sorting multiple fields in Flink?

2 years ago
Ava Mitchell
2 minutes

Flink offers various methods for performing multi-field sorting. Here are some commonly used ones:

  1. MapFunction from the org.apache.flink.api.common.functions package.
  2. tuple class from the org.apache.flink.api.java package
  3. KeySelector from org.apache.flink.api.java.functions

Example code:

DataStream<Tuple2<String, Integer>> dataStream = ...;

DataStream<Tuple2<String, Integer>> sortedStream = dataStream
    .map(new MapFunction<Tuple2<String, Integer>, Tuple2<String, Integer>>() {
        @Override
        public Tuple2<String, Integer> map(Tuple2<String, Integer> value) throws Exception {
            return value;
        }
    })
    .keyBy(new KeySelector<Tuple2<String, Integer>, String>() {
        @Override
        public String getKey(Tuple2<String, Integer> value) throws Exception {
            return value.f0;
        }
    })
    .flatMap(new OrderByFieldsFunction());

public class OrderByFieldsFunction extends RichFlatMapFunction<Tuple2<String, Integer>, Tuple2<String, Integer>> {
    private SortedMap<Tuple2<String, Integer>> sortedData;

    @Override
    public void open(Configuration parameters) throws Exception {
        sortedData = new TreeMap<>();
    }

    @Override
    public void flatMap(Tuple2<String, Integer> value, Collector<Tuple2<String, Integer>> out) throws Exception {
        sortedData.put(value);
        for (Tuple2<String, Integer> entry : sortedData.entrySet()) {
            out.collect(entry);
        }
    }
}
  1. ProcessFunction from the org.apache.flink.streaming.api.functions package
  2. a PriorityQueue from the java.util package
  3. when the timer is activated

Sample code:

DataStream<Tuple2<String, Integer>> dataStream = ...;

DataStream<Tuple2<String, Integer>> sortedStream = dataStream
    .process(new SortByFieldsProcessFunction());

public class SortByFieldsProcessFunction extends ProcessFunction<Tuple2<String, Integer>, Tuple2<String, Integer>> {
    private PriorityQueue<Tuple2<String, Integer>> queue;

    @Override
    public void open(Configuration parameters) throws Exception {
        queue = new PriorityQueue<>(new Comparator<Tuple2<String, Integer>>() {
            @Override
            public int compare(Tuple2<String, Integer> o1, Tuple2<String, Integer> o2) {
                // 自定义比较规则
                if (o1.f0.equals(o2.f0)) {
                    return o1.f1.compareTo(o2.f1);
                } else {
                    return o1.f0.compareTo(o2.f0);
                }
            }
        });
    }

    @Override
    public void processElement(Tuple2<String, Integer> value, Context ctx, Collector<Tuple2<String, Integer>> out) throws Exception {
        // 将数据存入优先队列
        queue.offer(value);
        // 在触发器中进行排序和输出
        ctx.timerService().registerProcessingTimeTimer(1000);
    }

    @Override
    public void onTimer(long timestamp, OnTimerContext ctx, Collector<Tuple2<String, Integer>> out) throws Exception {
        while (!queue.isEmpty()) {
            out.collect(queue.poll());
        }
    }
}

These methods can be expanded and customized according to requirements to meet different sorting needs.

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