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Valentyn Tymofieiev commented on BEAM-7198:
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Hi [~fperera], just checking if you still plan to work on this issue. Let me
know if you need any help.
> Rename ToStringCoder into ToBytesCoder
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> Key: BEAM-7198
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BEAM-7198
> Project: Beam
> Issue Type: Sub-task
> Components: sdk-py-core
> Reporter: Valentyn Tymofieiev
> Assignee: Francesco Perera
> Priority: Minor
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> The name of ToStringCoder class [1] is confusing, since the output of
> encode() on Python3 will be bytes. On Python 2 the output is also bytes,
> since bytes and string are synonyms on Py2.
> ToBytesCoder would be a better name for this class.
> Note that this class is not listed in coders that constitute Public APIs [2],
> so we can treat this as internal change. As a courtesy to users who happened
> to reference a non-public coder in their pipelines we can keep the old class
> name as an alias, e.g. ToStringCoder = ToBytesCoder to avoid friction, but
> clean up Beam codeabase to use the new name.
> [1]
> https://github.com/apache/beam/blob/ef4b2ef7e5fa2fb87e1491df82d2797947f51be9/sdks/python/apache_beam/coders/coders.py#L344
> [2]
> https://github.com/apache/beam/blob/ef4b2ef7e5fa2fb87e1491df82d2797947f51be9/sdks/python/apache_beam/coders/coders.py#L20
> cc: [~yoshiki.obata] [~chamikara]
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