Reference documentation and code samples for the Google Cloud Dataflow V1beta3 Client class Step.
Defines a particular step within a Cloud Dataflow job.
A job consists of multiple steps, each of which performs some
specific operation as part of the overall job. Data is typically
passed from one step to another as part of the job.
Note: The properties of this object are not stable and might change.
Here's an example of a sequence of steps which together implement a
Map-Reduce job:
Read a collection of data from some source, parsing the
collection's elements.
Validate the elements.
Apply a user-defined function to map each element to some value
and extract an element-specific key value.
Group elements with the same key into a single element with
that key, transforming a multiply-keyed collection into a
uniquely-keyed collection.
Write the elements out to some data sink.
Note that the Cloud Dataflow service may be used to run many different
types of jobs, not just Map-Reduce.
Generated from protobuf message google.dataflow.v1beta3.Step
Namespace
Google \ Cloud \ Dataflow \ V1beta3
Methods
__construct
Constructor.
Parameters
Name
Description
data
array
Optional. Data for populating the Message object.
↳ kind
string
The kind of step in the Cloud Dataflow job.
↳ name
string
The name that identifies the step. This must be unique for each step with respect to all other steps in the Cloud Dataflow job.
Named properties associated with the step. Each kind of predefined step has its own required set of properties. Must be provided on Create. Only retrieved with JOB_VIEW_ALL.
getKind
The kind of step in the Cloud Dataflow job.
Returns
Type
Description
string
setKind
The kind of step in the Cloud Dataflow job.
Parameter
Name
Description
var
string
Returns
Type
Description
$this
getName
The name that identifies the step. This must be unique for each
step with respect to all other steps in the Cloud Dataflow job.
Returns
Type
Description
string
setName
The name that identifies the step. This must be unique for each
step with respect to all other steps in the Cloud Dataflow job.
Parameter
Name
Description
var
string
Returns
Type
Description
$this
getProperties
Named properties associated with the step. Each kind of
predefined step has its own required set of properties.
Must be provided on Create. Only retrieved with JOB_VIEW_ALL.
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