Github user arunmahadevan commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/storm/pull/1470#discussion_r69395742 --- Diff: external/storm-redis/src/main/java/org/apache/storm/redis/state/RedisKeyValueState.java --- @@ -60,22 +64,23 @@ public RedisKeyValueState(String namespace) { } public RedisKeyValueState(String namespace, JedisPoolConfig poolConfig) { - this(namespace, poolConfig, new DefaultStateSerializer<K>(), new DefaultStateSerializer<V>()); + this(namespace, poolConfig, new DefaultStateSerializer<K>(), new DefaultStateSerializer<Optional<V>>()); } - public RedisKeyValueState(String namespace, JedisPoolConfig poolConfig, Serializer<K> keySerializer, Serializer<V> valueSerializer) { + public RedisKeyValueState(String namespace, JedisPoolConfig poolConfig, Serializer<K> keySerializer, Serializer<Optional<V>> valueSerializer) { this(namespace, JedisCommandsContainerBuilder.build(poolConfig), keySerializer, valueSerializer); } public RedisKeyValueState(String namespace, JedisCommandsInstanceContainer jedisContainer, - Serializer<K> keySerializer, Serializer<V> valueSerializer) { + Serializer<K> keySerializer, Serializer<Optional<V>> valueSerializer) { base64Encoder = new BASE64Encoder(); base64Decoder = new BASE64Decoder(); this.namespace = namespace; this.prepareNamespace = namespace + "$prepare"; this.txidNamespace = namespace + "$txid"; this.keySerializer = keySerializer; this.valueSerializer = valueSerializer; + this.tombstone = encode(valueSerializer.serialize(Optional.<V>absent())); --- End diff -- Internally absent seems to return a static final Absent<Object> cast to Optional<T>, so the type does not really matter. Its not major, but the tombstone could be a constant reference to Optional.<Object>absent().The current one is also fine.
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