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Updated on 2023-04-28 GMT+08:00
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Creating a Stream Table

Scenario

Data tables can be used to define basic attributes and parameters of source tables, dimension tables, and output tables.

Creating a Stream Table

  1. Access the Flink web UI. For details, see Accessing the Flink Web UI.
  2. Click Table Management. The table management page is displayed.
  3. Click Create Stream Table. On the stream table creation page, set parameters by referring to Table 1 and click OK. After the stream table is created, you can edit or delete the stream table in the Operation column.

    Figure 1 Creating a stream table
    Table 1 Parameters for creating a stream table

    Parameter

    Description

    Remarks

    Stream/Table Name

    Stream/Table name

    Example: flink_sink

    Description

    Stream/Table description information

    -

    Mapping Table Type

    Flink SQL does not provide the data storage function. Table creation is actually the creation of mapping for external data tables or storage.

    The value can be Kafka or HDFS.

    -

    Type

    Includes data source table Source and data result table Sink. Tables included in different mapping table types are as follows:

    • Kafka: Source and Sink
    • HDFS: Source and Sink

    -

    Data Connection

    Name of the data connection

    -

    Topic

    Kafka topic to be read. Multiple Kafka topics can be read. Use separators to separate topics.

    This parameter is available when Mapping Table Type is set to Kafka.

    -

    File Path

    HDFS directory or a single file path to be transferred.

    This parameter is available when Mapping Table Type is set to HDFS.

    Example:

    /user/sqoop/ or /user/sqoop/example.csv

    Code

    Codes corresponding to different mapping table types are as follows:

    • Kafka: CSV and JSON
    • HDFS: CSV

    -

    Prefix

    When Mapping Table Type is set to Kafka, Type is set to Source, and Code is set to JSON, this parameter indicates the hierarchical prefixes of multi-layer nested JSON, which are separated by commas (,).

    For example, data,info indicates that the content under data and info in the nested JSON file is used as the data input in JSON format.

    Separator

    Has different meanings when Mapping Table Type is set to the following values: It is used as the separator of specified CSV fields. This parameter is available only when Code is set to CSV.

    Example: comma (,)

    Row Separator

    Line break in the file, including \r, \n, and \r\n.

    This parameter is available when Mapping Table Type is set to HDFS.

    -

    Column Separator

    Field separator in the file.

    This parameter is available when Mapping Table Type is set to HDFS.

    Example: comma (,)

    Stream Table Structure

    Stream/Table structure, including Name and Type.

    -

    Proctime

    System time, which is irrelevant to the data timestamp. That is, the time when the calculation is complete in Flink operators.

    This parameter is available when Type is set to Source.

    -

    Event Time

    Time when an event is generated, that is, the timestamp generated during data generation.

    This parameter is available when Type is set to Source.

    -