Github user greghogan commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/2036#discussion_r64723638 --- Diff: flink-libraries/flink-gelly/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/graph/gsa/GatherSumApplyIteration.java --- @@ -289,6 +300,11 @@ private GatherUdf(GatherFunction<VV, EV, M> gatherFunction, TypeInformation<Tupl @Override public void open(Configuration parameters) throws Exception { + try { + Collection<LongValue> numberOfVertices = getRuntimeContext().getBroadcastVariable("number of vertices"); + this.gatherFunction.setNumberOfVertices(numberOfVertices.iterator().next().getValue()); + } catch (Exception e) { + } --- End diff -- @sewen thanks for the pointers. What are your thoughts on adding a hasBroadcastVariable method to RuntimeContext? And elsewhere in that class? The javadocs for getBroadcastVariable could note the exception as for getAccumulator.
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