CombineGlobally
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Combines all elements in a collection.
See more information in the Beam Programming Guide.
Examples
In the following examples, we create a pipeline with a PCollection of produce.
Then, we apply CombineGlobally in multiple ways to combine all the elements in the PCollection.
CombineGlobally accepts a function that takes an iterable of elements as an input, and combines them to return a single element.
Example 1: Combining with a function
We define a function get_common_items which takes an iterable of sets as an input, and calculates the intersection (common items) of those sets.
Example 2: Combining with a lambda function
We can also use lambda functions to simplify Example 1.
Example 3: Combining with multiple arguments
You can pass functions with multiple arguments to CombineGlobally.
They are passed as additional positional arguments or keyword arguments to the function.
In this example, the lambda function takes sets and exclude as arguments.
Example 4: Combining with a CombineFn
The more general way to combine elements, and the most flexible, is with a class that inherits from CombineFn.
CombineFn.create_accumulator(): This creates an empty accumulator. For example, an empty accumulator for a sum would be0, while an empty accumulator for a product (multiplication) would be1.CombineFn.add_input(): Called once per element. Takes an accumulator and an input element, combines them and returns the updated accumulator.CombineFn.merge_accumulators(): Multiple accumulators could be processed in parallel, so this function helps merging them into a single accumulator.CombineFn.extract_output(): It allows to do additional calculations before extracting a result.
Related transforms
You can use the following combiner transforms:
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Last updated on 2025/07/19
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