[FLINK-17904] Add "scheduleWithFixedDelay" to ProcessingTimeService

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.11.0
• Component/s: Runtime / Task
• Assignee: Stephan Ewen
• Reporter: Stephan Ewen
• Created: 24/May/20 21:37
• Updated: 27/May/20 20:16
• Resolved: 27/May/20 20:16

Description

Adding "scheduleWithFixedDelay(...)" to ProcessingTimeService better support cases where fired timers are backed up. Rather than immediately firing again, they would wait their scheduled delay.

The implementation can be added in ProcessingTimeService in the exact same way as "scheduleAtFixedRate".