Github user fhueske commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/5240#discussion_r163067483
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flink-libraries/flink-table/src/main/scala/org/apache/flink/table/typeutils/TypeStringUtils.scala
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+package org.apache.flink.table.typeutils
+
+import java.io.Serializable
+
+import org.apache.commons.codec.binary.Base64
+import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringEscapeUtils
+import org.apache.flink.api.common.typeinfo.{BasicArrayTypeInfo,
PrimitiveArrayTypeInfo, TypeInformation}
+import org.apache.flink.api.common.typeutils.CompositeType
+import org.apache.flink.api.java.typeutils._
+import org.apache.flink.table.api.{TableException, Types,
ValidationException}
+import
org.apache.flink.table.descriptors.NormalizedProperties.normalizeTypeInfo
+import org.apache.flink.util.InstantiationUtil
+
+import _root_.scala.language.implicitConversions
+import _root_.scala.util.parsing.combinator.{JavaTokenParsers,
PackratParsers}
+
+/**
+ * Utilities to convert
[[org.apache.flink.api.common.typeinfo.TypeInformation]] into a
+ * string representation and back.
+ */
+object TypeStringUtils extends JavaTokenParsers with PackratParsers {
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Some examples about the supported syntax would be good.
Would also be good to add these examples to the method docs that accept
type strings.
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