Github user aljoscha commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/4814#discussion_r144234905
--- Diff:
flink-core/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/configuration/QueryableStateOptions.java
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@@ -37,10 +37,27 @@
key("query.server.enable")
.defaultValue(true);
- /** Port to bind KvState server to (0 => pick random available port). */
- public static final ConfigOption<Integer> SERVER_PORT =
+ /**
+ * The config parameter defining the server port range of the queryable
state proxy.
+ *
+ * <p>A proxy runs on each Task Manager, so many proxies may run on the
same
+ * machine.
+ *
+ * <p>Given this, and to avoid port clashes, the user can specify a
port range and
+ * the proxy is going to bind to the first free port in that range.
+ *
+ * <p>The specified range can be:
+ * <ol>
+ * <li>a port: "9123",</li>
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I think the strange Javadoc convention (which is based on very old HTML) is
to not have closing `li` tags
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