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Allow negative offsets in window assigners

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      According to comments, we can use offset to adjust windows to timezones other than UTC-0. For example, in China you would have to specify an offset of Time.hours(-8)

       

      /**
       * Creates a new {@code TumblingEventTimeWindows} {@link WindowAssigner} that assigns
       * elements to time windows based on the element timestamp and offset.
       *
       * <p>For example, if you want window a stream by hour,but window begins at the 15th minutes
       * of each hour, you can use {@code of(Time.hours(1),Time.minutes(15))},then you will get
       * time windows start at 0:15:00,1:15:00,2:15:00,etc.
       *
       * <p>Rather than that,if you are living in somewhere which is not using UTC±00:00 time,
       * such as China which is using UTC+08:00,and you want a time window with size of one day,
       * and window begins at every 00:00:00 of local time,you may use {@code of(Time.days(1),Time.hours(-8))}.
       * The parameter of offset is {@code Time.hours(-8))} since UTC+08:00 is 8 hours earlier than UTC time.
       *
       * @param size The size of the generated windows.
       * @param offset The offset which window start would be shifted by.
       * @return The time policy.
       */
      public static TumblingEventTimeWindows of(Time size, Time offset) {
       return new TumblingEventTimeWindows(size.toMilliseconds(), offset.toMilliseconds());
      }

       

      but when offset is smaller than zero, a IllegalArgumentException will be throwed.

       

      protected TumblingEventTimeWindows(long size, long offset) {
       if (offset < 0 || offset >= size) {
       throw new IllegalArgumentException("TumblingEventTimeWindows parameters must satisfy 0 <= offset < size");
       }
      
       this.size = size;
       this.offset = offset;
      }

       

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              kezhuw Kezhu Wang
              winipanda TANG Wen-hui
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