Github user StephanEwen commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/1483#issuecomment-168620418
Can you give us a bit of context why this is needed?
Also: The `RuntimeContext` object is what is exposed to user-defined
functions. Exposing the number of the channel there breaks the abstraction
layer.
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