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Is there way to run a timer based function connected to Event Hubs?

See original GitHub issue

The event hub trigger is executed every time a single event is sent. I’d like to perform various operations on a batch of data from event hub based on a time interval, is there a way to set this up? There wasn’t an option to use Event Hubs as an input when choosing a timer based function.

I saw that there is an archive option on event hubs which will put the data into a blob every X minutes or Y MB in size. I figured I could use a blob trigger for when those created. However, in retrieving that data, I’m not sure how exactly to parse out my data easily:

2016-09-14T18:41:53.190 Objavro.codecnullavro.schema�{"type":"record","name":"EventData","namespace":"Microsoft.ServiceBus.Messaging",
"fields":[{"name":"SequenceNumber","type":"long"},
{"name":"Offset","type":"string"},
{"name":"EnqueuedTimeUtc","type":"string"},
{"name":"SystemProperties","type":{"type":"map","values":["long","double","string","bytes"]}},
{"name":"Properties","type":{"type":"map","values":["long","double","string","bytes"]}},
{"name":"Body","type":["null","bytes"]}]}
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Even if that does work, I was concerned about the 10,000 blob limit documented here: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/functions-bindings-storage/

In a 24 hour period @ 1 min archive intervals we are already at 1,400 blobs. The recommendation is then to use a queue trigger. However I don’t see any way to use Event Hubs with a queue trigger in this way.