Github user tillrohrmann commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/2357#discussion_r74554448
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flink-runtime/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/runtime/rpc/RpcEndpoint.java ---
@@ -172,6 +173,13 @@ public void runAsync(Runnable runnable) {
return ((MainThreadExecutor) self).callAsync(callable, timeout);
}
+ /**
+ * Returns the class of the self gateway type.
+ *
+ * @return Class of the self gateway type
+ */
+ public abstract Class<C> getSelfGatewayType();
--- End diff --
Yes we can do this. I thought about this and then went for the solution
which saves some compute cycles. I can change it to the reflection alternative
if it's pre-mature optimization.
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