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Stefan Richter commented on FLINK-5024:
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Independently of this, I also talked with Aljoscha about state descriptors.
What I don't like in the current implementation is that it contains the state
name and value type serializer, but for example not the namespace type
serializer. This is also a little inconsistent, so +1 for some changes here.
> Add SimpleStateDescriptor to clarify the concepts
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>
> Key: FLINK-5024
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-5024
> Project: Flink
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Xiaogang Shi
> Assignee: Xiaogang Shi
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> Currently, StateDescriptors accept two type arguments : the first one is the
> type of the created state and the second one is the type of the values in the
> states.
> The concepts however is a little confusing here because in ListStates, the
> arguments passed to the StateDescriptors are the types of the list elements
> instead of the lists. It also makes the implementation of MapStates difficult.
> I suggest not to put the type serializer in StateDescriptors, making
> StateDescriptors independent of the data structures of the values.
> A new type of StateDescriptor named SimpleStateDescriptor can be provided to
> abstract those states (namely ValueState, ReducingState and FoldingState)
> whose states are not composited.
> The states (e.g. ListStates and MapStates) can implement their own
> descriptors according to their data structures.
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