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Stephan Ewen updated FLINK-11333:
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    Labels: pull-request-available usability  (was: pull-request-available)

> First-class support for Protobuf types with evolvable schema
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>                 Key: FLINK-11333
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-11333
>             Project: Flink
>          Issue Type: Sub-task
>          Components: API / Type Serialization System
>            Reporter: Tzu-Li (Gordon) Tai
>            Assignee: Yun Tang
>            Priority: Major
>              Labels: pull-request-available, usability
>          Time Spent: 10m
>  Remaining Estimate: 0h
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> I think we have more and more users who are thinking about using Protobuf for 
> their state types.
> Right now, Protobuf isn't supported directly in Flink. The only way to use 
> Protobuf for a type is to register it via Kryo: 
> https://ci.apache.org/projects/flink/flink-docs-release-1.7/dev/custom_serializers.html.
> Likewise for Avro types, we should be able to natively support Protobuf, 
> having a {{ProtobufSerializer}} that handles serialization of Protobuf types. 
> The serializer should also write necessary information in its snapshot, to 
> enable schema evolution for it in the future. For Protobuf, this should 
> almost work out-of-the-box.



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