+1

This is the prerequisite to help us to introduce a standard YAML parser, which 
has been discussed in different tickets [1] [2].


[1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-23620
[2] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-29366

Best
Yun Tang
________________________________
From: Yang Wang <danrtsey...@gmail.com>
Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2022 11:00
To: dev@flink.apache.org <dev@flink.apache.org>
Subject: Re: [DISCUSS][FLINK-29372] Add a suffix to keys that violate YAML spec

This will make it possible to replace the current rough implementation[1]
with a common yaml parser.
And then we could avoid some unexpected behaviors[2].

+1

[1].
https://github.com/apache/flink/blob/master/flink-core/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/configuration/GlobalConfiguration.java#L179
[2]. https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-15358

Best,
Yang

Konstantin Knauf <kna...@apache.org> 于2022年9月22日周四 04:26写道:

> Make sense to me. It is moving us in the right direction and makes it
> possible to drop these keys with Flink 2.0 if that ever happens :)
>
> Am Mi., 21. Sept. 2022 um 16:06 Uhr schrieb Chesnay Schepler <
> ches...@apache.org>:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > we have a small number of options in Flink whose key is a prefix of
> > other keys.
> >
> > This violates the YAML spec; when you view the options as a tree only
> > leaf nodes may have properties.
> >
> > While this is a minor issue from our side I think this can be quite
> > annoying for users, since it means you can't read or validate a Flink
> > config with standard yaml tools.
> >
> > I'd like to add a suffix to those keys to resolve this particular
> > problem, while still supporting the previous keys (as deprecated).
> >
> > AFAICT there aren't any risks here,
> > except if users have a search&replace step for one of these options in
> > the default config of the Flink distribution;
> > however this seems unsafe in any case since the contents of the default
> > config may change.
> >
> > This would also bring us a step closer to our goal of using a compliant
> > YAML parser.
> >
>
>
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