Github user greghogan commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/4574#discussion_r139185112 --- Diff: flink-core/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/api/java/typeutils/TypeExtractor.java --- @@ -1900,7 +1900,8 @@ private boolean isValidPojoField(Field f, Class<?> clazz, ArrayList<Type> typeHi ParameterizedType parameterizedType, TypeInformation<IN1> in1Type, TypeInformation<IN2> in2Type) { if (!Modifier.isPublic(clazz.getModifiers())) { - LOG.info("Class " + clazz.getName() + " is not public, cannot treat it as a POJO type. Will be handled as GenericType"); + LOG.info("Class " + clazz.getName() + " is not public, cannot treat it as a POJO type. " + + "Will be handled as GenericType, and may lose some serialization performance."); --- End diff -- What if we said something like "... is not public and cannot be processed as a POJO type. Please read the Flink documentation on "Data Types & Serialization" for details on the impact to performance."
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