Github user zentol commented on the issue:
https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/2210
We could do that but it wouldn't be pretty. You would need a weird
setValue() method on that Gauge that the StreamInputProcessor can use.
Forwarding the register calls to the parent is the best solution i can come
up with at the moment.
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