Github user aljoscha commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/4232#discussion_r125034182 --- Diff: flink-runtime/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/runtime/executiongraph/ExecutionGraphBuilder.java --- @@ -223,19 +223,21 @@ public static ExecutionGraph buildGraph( // if specified in the application, use from there, otherwise load from configuration final StateBackend metadataBackend; - final StateBackend applicationConfiguredBackend = snapshotSettings.getDefaultStateBackend(); + final SerializedValue<StateBackend> applicationConfiguredBackend = snapshotSettings.getDefaultStateBackend(); if (applicationConfiguredBackend != null) { - metadataBackend = applicationConfiguredBackend; + try { + metadataBackend = applicationConfiguredBackend.deserializeValue(classLoader); + } catch (IOException | ClassNotFoundException e) { + throw new JobExecutionException(jobId, "Could not instantiate configured state backend.", e); + } log.info("Using application-defined state backend for checkpoint/savepoint metadata: {}.", applicationConfiguredBackend); --- End diff -- Good catch!
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