Github user aljoscha commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/1101#discussion_r38903676
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flink-staging/flink-streaming/flink-streaming-core/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/streaming/api/operators/OutputTypeConfigurable.java
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+package org.apache.flink.streaming.api.operators;
+
+import org.apache.flink.api.common.ExecutionConfig;
+import org.apache.flink.api.common.typeinfo.TypeInformation;
+
+/**
+ * Stream operators can implement this interface if they need access to
the output type information
+ * at {@link org.apache.flink.streaming.api.graph.StreamGraph} generation.
This can be useful for
+ * cases where the output type is specified by the returns method and,
thus, after the stream
+ * operator has been created.
+ */
+public interface OutputTypeConfigurable {
+
+ /**
+ * Is called by the {@link
org.apache.flink.streaming.api.graph.StreamGraph#addOperator(Integer,
StreamOperator, TypeInformation, TypeInformation, String)}
+ * method when the {@link
org.apache.flink.streaming.api.graph.StreamGraph} is generated. The
+ * method is called with the output {@link TypeInformation} which is
also used for the
+ * {@link org.apache.flink.streaming.runtime.tasks.StreamTask} output
serializer.
+ *
+ * @param outTypeInfo Output type information of the {@link
org.apache.flink.streaming.runtime.tasks.StreamTask}
+ * @param executionConfig Execution configuration
+ */
+ void setOutputType(TypeInformation<?> outTypeInfo, ExecutionConfig
executionConfig);
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Why don't we type the interface, so that we don't need casts in
`setOutputType` implementations at the operator?
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