Github user StephanEwen commented on the issue:
https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/2723
Having `null` as the full transported type es explicitly not supported
right now.
The handling of null member fields belongs logically to the
Tuple/Pojo/CaseClass serializer, not to the individual types that can be
members.
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