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ASF GitHub Bot commented on FLINK-3002:
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Github user StephanEwen commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/1371#issuecomment-157784970
Integrating it with the TypeExtractor means that the APIs recognize the
type and choose the type info properly.
I think @twalthr is probably the best to give pointers on how to integrate
this with the TypeExtractor.
BTW: Would be nice if we could make custom type integration easier by
defining an interface/static method that classes can implement to create their
own type information. That gives users an easy extension point.
> Add an EitherType to the Java API
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> Key: FLINK-3002
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-3002
> Project: Flink
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: Java API
> Affects Versions: 0.10.0
> Reporter: Stephan Ewen
> Assignee: Vasia Kalavri
> Fix For: 1.0.0
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> Either types are recurring patterns and should be serialized efficiently, so
> it makes sense to add them to the core Java API.
> Since Java does not have such a type as of Java 8, we would need to add our
> own version.
> The Scala API handles the Scala Either Type already efficiently. I would not
> use the Scala Either Type in the Java API, since we are trying to get the
> {{flink-java}} project "Scala free" for people that don't use Scala and o not
> want to worry about Scala version matches and mismatches.
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