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Till Rohrmann commented on FLINK-3444:
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The common nearest super type would be the intersection type {{A & B}} to be
precise. But I see your point that it would not be possible to decide which of
the interface shall be selected as the common super type if it weren't for the
class variant of {{fromElements}}.
> env.fromElements relies on the first input element for determining the
> DataSet/DataStream type
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>
> Key: FLINK-3444
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-3444
> Project: Flink
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: DataSet API, DataStream API
> Affects Versions: 0.10.0, 1.0.0
> Reporter: Vasia Kalavri
> Fix For: 1.1.0
>
>
> The {{fromElements}} method of the {{ExecutionEnvironment}} and
> {{StreamExecutionEnvironment}} determines the DataSet/DataStream type by
> extracting the type of the first input element.
> This is problematic if the first element is a subtype of another element in
> the collection.
> For example, the following
> {code}
> DataStream<Event> input = env.fromElements(new Event(1, "a"), new SubEvent(2,
> "b"));
> {code}
> succeeds, while the following
> {code}
> DataStream<Event> input = env.fromElements(new SubEvent(1, "a"), new Event(2,
> "b"));
> {code}
> fails with "java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: The elements in the
> collection are not all subclasses of SubEvent".
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