Apache Flink Streaming type mismatch in flatMap function

Question

Trying to use streaming api of 0.10.0 flink version in scala 2.10.4. While trying to compile this first version:

import org.apache.flink.streaming.api.environment.StreamExecutionEnvironment
import org.apache.flink.streaming.api.scala.DataStream
import org.apache.flink.streaming.api.windowing.time._

object Main {
  def main(args: Array[String]) {
    val env = StreamExecutionEnvironment.getExecutionEnvironment
    val text = env.socketTextStream("localhost", 9999)

    val words : DataStream[String] = text.flatMap[String](
      new Function[String,TraversableOnce[String]] { 
        def apply(line:String):TraversableOnce[String] = line.split(" ")
      })

    env.execute("Window Stream wordcount")
  }
}

I am getting compile time error:

[error]  found   : String => TraversableOnce[String]
[error]  required: org.apache.flink.api.common.functions.FlatMapFunction[String,String]
[error]       new Function[String,TraversableOnce[String]] { def apply(line:String):TraversableOnce[String] = line.split(" ")})
[error]       ^

And in decompiled version of DataStream.class that I have included to project there are functions that accept such type (the last one):

public <R> DataStream<R> flatMap(FlatMapFunction<T, R> flatMapper, TypeInformation<R> evidence$12, ClassTag<R> evidence$13) {
        if (flatMapper == null) {
            throw new NullPointerException("FlatMap function must not be null.");
        }
        TypeInformation outType = (TypeInformation)Predef..MODULE$.implicitly(evidence$12);
        return package..MODULE$.javaToScalaStream((org.apache.flink.streaming.api.datastream.DataStream)this.javaStream.flatMap(flatMapper).returns(outType));
    }

    public <R> DataStream<R> flatMap(Function2<T, Collector<R>, BoxedUnit> fun, TypeInformation<R> evidence$14, ClassTag<R> evidence$15) {
        if (fun == null) {
            throw new NullPointerException("FlatMap function must not be null.");
        }
        Function2<T, Collector<R>, BoxedUnit> cleanFun = this.clean((F)fun);
        .anon flatMapper = new /* Unavailable Anonymous Inner Class!! */;
        return this.flatMap((FlatMapFunction<T, R>)flatMapper, evidence$14, evidence$15);
    }

    public <R> DataStream<R> flatMap(Function1<T, TraversableOnce<R>> fun, TypeInformation<R> evidence$16, ClassTag<R> evidence$17) {
        if (fun == null) {
            throw new NullPointerException("FlatMap function must not be null.");
        }
        Function1<T, TraversableOnce<R>> cleanFun = this.clean((F)fun);
        .anon flatMapper = new /* Unavailable Anonymous Inner Class!! */;
        return this.flatMap((FlatMapFunction<T, R>)flatMapper, evidence$16, evidence$17);
    }

What could be wrong here? I would be grateful if you could give some insight. Thank you in advance.

Answer 1

The problem is that you are importing the Java StreamExecutionEnvironment of Flink: org.apache.flink.streaming.api.environment.StreamExecutionEnvironment.

You have to use the Scala variant of the StreamExecutionEnvironment like this: import org.apache.flink.streaming.api.scala.StreamExecutionEnvironment. With that change, everything is successfully building!

Original answer: The problem is that you are passing a Function to the flatMap() method. However flatMap() expects a FlatMapFunction.

 val words : DataStream[String] = text.flatMap[String](
      new FlatMapFunction[String,String] {
        override def flatMap(t: String, collector: Collector[String]): Unit = t.split(" ")
      })