You could use `byte[0]` for no padding and get rid of `null`/flag checks as
well as the `padNullValue` flag via a method `isPadding { return padding.length
> 0;}`. Then also annotating the field as `@Nonnull` and just always call the
method that writes padding to remove a couple branches.[ Full content available at: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/6707 ] This message was relayed via gitbox.apache.org for [email protected]
