Github user jgrier commented on the issue:
https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/3314
I think it would be just fine if we allowed a null return given the
tradeoffs discussed here. The main thing was to allow users a way to deal with
bad data with minimal effort and without throwing an exception and causing
their job to restart.
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