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ASF GitHub Bot commented on FLINK-8345:
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Github user aljoscha commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/5230#discussion_r163841958
--- Diff:
flink-runtime/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/runtime/state/BackendWritableBroadcastState.java
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+package org.apache.flink.runtime.state;
+
+import org.apache.flink.api.common.state.BroadcastState;
+import org.apache.flink.core.fs.FSDataOutputStream;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+
+/**
+ * An interface with methods related to the interplay between the {@link
BroadcastState}
+ * and the {@link OperatorStateBackend}.
+ *
+ * @param <K> The key type of the elements in the {@link BroadcastState}.
+ * @param <V> The value type of the elements in the {@link BroadcastState}.
+ */
+public interface BackendWritableBroadcastState<K, V> extends
BroadcastState<K, V> {
+
+ BackendWritableBroadcastState<K, V> deepCopy();
+
+ long[] write(FSDataOutputStream out) throws IOException;
--- End diff --
Why does the write method return all the partition offsets? Are they ever
used for anything? I think this might be leftover from `PartitionableListState`.
> Iterate over keyed state on broadcast side of connect with broadcast.
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: FLINK-8345
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-8345
> Project: Flink
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: Streaming
> Affects Versions: 1.5.0
> Reporter: Kostas Kloudas
> Assignee: Kostas Kloudas
> Priority: Major
> Fix For: 1.5.0
>
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