gaborgsomogyi commented on PR #25267: URL: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/25267#issuecomment-2317153123
In order to help reviewers the general concept is the following. `UID` and `name` fields are optional and as such they're null in the initial part of the code chain. I've kept the null values until `MetadataV5Serializer` where empty string is stored. The reverse way is to convert empty string as null to keep consistency. The other possibility was to come up with a new optional string storage mechanism which I've tried but in my view it would just add extra complexity with relatively high risk and no gain. -- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: [email protected]
