Github user StephanEwen commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/849#issuecomment-113298367
I think that the correct thing is to drop the check for not null, because
the `instanceof` keyword checks that the argument is not null already. The
current code hence checks twice that the value is not null.
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