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Fabian Hueske commented on FLINK-11825:
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Hi [~klion26], sure feel free to take the issue.
However, we should collect some more feedback.
[~azagrebin], what do you think?
> Resolve name clash of StateTTL TimeCharacteristic class
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> Key: FLINK-11825
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-11825
> Project: Flink
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Runtime / State Backends
> Affects Versions: 1.7.2
> Reporter: Fabian Hueske
> Priority: Major
>
> The StateTTL feature introduced the class
> \{{org.apache.flink.api.common.state.TimeCharacteristic}} which clashes with
> \{{org.apache.flink.streaming.api.TimeCharacteristic}}.
> This is a problem for two reasons:
> 1. Users get confused because the mistakenly import
> \{{org.apache.flink.api.common.state.TimeCharacteristic}}.
> 2. When using the StateTTL feature, users need to spell out the package name
> for \{{org.apache.flink.api.common.state.TimeCharacteristic}} because the
> other class is most likely already imported.
> Since \{{org.apache.flink.streaming.api.TimeCharacteristic}} is one of the
> most used classes of the DataStream API, we should make sure that users can
> use it without import problems.
> These error are hard to spot and confusing for many users.
> I see two ways to resolve the issue:
> 1. drop \{{org.apache.flink.api.common.state.TimeCharacteristic}} and use
> \{{org.apache.flink.streaming.api.TimeCharacteristic}} throwing an exception
> if an incorrect characteristic is used.
> 2. rename the class \{{org.apache.flink.api.common.state.TimeCharacteristic}}
> to some other name.
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