GitHub user tillrohrmann opened a pull request:
https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/5450
[FLINK-8631] [rest] Add support for generic types to the RestClient
## What is the purpose of the change
This commit allows the Restclient to receive generic response types. In
order
to do this, the MessageHeaders contain now information about the generic
type parameters of the response type.
## Brief change log
- Extend `MessageHeaders` to have `getResponseTypeParameters` method
- Adapt `RestClient` to take type parameters into consideration when
receiving a response
## Does this pull request potentially affect one of the following parts:
- Dependencies (does it add or upgrade a dependency): (no)
- The public API, i.e., is any changed class annotated with
`@Public(Evolving)`: (no)
- The serializers: (no)
- The runtime per-record code paths (performance sensitive): (no)
- Anything that affects deployment or recovery: JobManager (and its
components), Checkpointing, Yarn/Mesos, ZooKeeper: (no)
- The S3 file system connector: (no)
## Documentation
- Does this pull request introduce a new feature? (no)
- If yes, how is the feature documented? (not applicable)
You can merge this pull request into a Git repository by running:
$ git pull https://github.com/tillrohrmann/flink generifyRestClient
Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at:
https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/5450.patch
To close this pull request, make a commit to your master/trunk branch
with (at least) the following in the commit message:
This closes #5450
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commit b0efaa09c3b39e31ba130c668abe39af40473fb4
Author: Till Rohrmann <trohrmann@...>
Date: 2018-02-03T16:41:51Z
[FLINK-8631] [rest] Add support for generic types to the RestClient
This commit allows the Restclient to receive generic response types. In
order
to do this, the MessageHeaders contain now information about the generic
type parameters of the response type.
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