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Status

Current state: [One of "Under Discussion", "Accepted", "Rejected"]

Discussion thread: Not available nowhere [Change the link from the KIP proposal email archive to your own email thread]

JIRA: here [Change the link from KAFKA-1 to your own ticket]

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Motivation

Describe the problems you are trying to solve.

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We have an existing table() API in the StreamsBuilder which could materialize a Kafka topic into a local state store called KTable. As we know, currently there are 2 different types of state store: key-value based and window based. The current interface could only accept key-value store, which is not ideal. In this KIP, we would like to address this problem by creating a new API called windowedTable() which supports the generation of a windowed KTable

Public Interfaces

The current KTable API looks like this:

Briefly list any new interfaces that will be introduced as part of this proposal or any existing interfaces that will be removed or changed. The purpose of this section is to concisely call out the public contract that will come along with this feature.

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