[jira] [Created] (FLINK-18830) JoinCoGroupFunction and FlatJoinCoGroupFunction work incorrectly for outer join when one side of coGroup is empty

["liupengcheng (Jira)" <ji...@apache.org>]

liupengcheng created FLINK-18830:
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             Summary: JoinCoGroupFunction and FlatJoinCoGroupFunction work incorrectly for outer join when one side of coGroup is empty
                 Key: FLINK-18830
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-18830
             Project: Flink
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: API / DataStream
    Affects Versions: 1.11.1
            Reporter: liupengcheng


Currently, The `JoinCoGroupFunction` and `FlatJoinCoGroupFunction` in JoinedStreams does't respect the join type, it's been implemented as doing join within a two-level loop. However, this is incorrect for outer join when one side of the coGroup is empty.

```
	public void coGroup(Iterable<T1> first, Iterable<T2> second, Collector<T> out) throws Exception {
			for (T1 val1: first) {
				for (T2 val2: second) {
					wrappedFunction.join(val1, val2, out);
				}
			}
		}
```
The above code is the current implementation, suppose the first input is non-empty, and the second input is an empty iterator, then the join function(`wrappedFunction`) will never be called. This will cause no data to be emitted for a left outer join.

So I propose to consider join type here, and handle this case, e.g., for left outer join, we can call join function with right side set to null here if the right side is empty, so that the join function can handle real joins.



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