Github user StephanEwen commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/5501#discussion_r173146108
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flink-metrics/flink-metrics-core/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/metrics/NumberGauge.java
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+package org.apache.flink.metrics;
+
+/**
+ * A NumberGauge is a {@link Metric} that calculates a specific {@link
Number} value at a point in time.
+ */
+public interface NumberGauge extends Metric {
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This could be generic, as in
```java
public interface NumberGauge<T extends Number> extends Metric {
T getNumberValue();
}
```
Was there a specific reason to not make this generic?
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