Opened FLINK-5416 (unassigned).

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From: Stefan Richter <s.rich...@data-artisans.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 5, 2017 5:54:30 AM
To: dev@flink.apache.org
Subject: Re: CheckpointedFunction applicability?

Hi,

you are correct, the wrappers are lacking callbacks on CheckpointedFunction. 
This is not the intended design and should be added.

Best,
Stefan


> Am 05.01.2017 um 04:40 schrieb Eron Wright <ewri...@live.com>:
>
> Hello!
>
> The `CheckpointedFunction` interface was introduced to provide user functions 
> with a context for partitioned state storage.   This works for user functions 
> that are provided directly to the operator (assuming it extends from 
> `AbstractUdfStreamOperator`).   However, I see that some operators wrap the 
> user function in an internal function (e.g. `WrappingFunction`,  
> `InternalWindowFunction`).   This defeats the callbacks on 
> `CheckpointedFunction` because those wrappers don’t implement 
> `CheckpointedFunction`.  Is this by design or a bug?
>
> For example, the user function passed to `WindowedStream::apply` will get 
> callbacks for `RichFunction` but not for `CheckpointedFunction`.
>
> To fix it, the wrapper would assumedly implement `CheckpointedFunction` and 
> contain logic similar to that found in `AbstractUdfStreamOperator` (including 
> the handling of `ListCheckpointed`).
>
> Thanks
> Eron

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