Github user mjsax commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/1483#issuecomment-168748526
Needed for Storm compatibility. This information is made available in Storm
to the user. Not sure why adding it to `RuntimeContext` breaks abstraction
layer (it's only meta information)? Can you explain what you mean by that?
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