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Fabian Hueske commented on FLINK-3001: -------------------------------------- Do we want to support Option types as keys? If yes, what will be the Null semantics of Option types? - Are two null-valued Options equal? - Do null valued Options sort before or after non-null valued Options? > Add Support for Java 8 Optional type > ------------------------------------ > > Key: FLINK-3001 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-3001 > Project: Flink > Issue Type: New Feature > Components: Java API > Affects Versions: 0.10 > Reporter: Stephan Ewen > Priority: Minor > Fix For: 1.0 > > > Using {{Optional}} is a good way to handle nullable fields. > The missing support for null fields in tuples can be easily handled by using > {{Optional<T>}} for nullable fields and {{T}} directly for non nullable > fields. > That also retains best serialization efficiency. > Since we cannot always assume the presence of {{Optional}} (only introduced > in Java8), the TypeExtractor needs to analyze and create that TypeInfo with > reflection. > Further more, we need to add the OptionalTypeInfo to the flink-java8 project > and people need to include flink-java8 in their project if they want to use > the Optional. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)