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ASF GitHub Bot commented on FLINK-5979:
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Github user aljoscha commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/3483#discussion_r106132349
--- Diff:
flink-runtime/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/runtime/state/heap/KeyContext.java
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+package org.apache.flink.runtime.state.heap;
+
+import org.apache.flink.api.common.typeutils.TypeSerializer;
+import org.apache.flink.runtime.state.KeyGroupRange;
+
+/**
+ * This interface is the current context of a keyed state. It provides
information about the currently selected key in
+ * the context, the corresponding key-group, and other key and
key-grouping related information.
+ * <p>
+ * The typical use case for this interface is providing a view on the
current-key selection aspects of
+ * {@link org.apache.flink.runtime.state.KeyedStateBackend}.
+ */
+public interface KeyContext<K> {
--- End diff --
We had a quick offline discussion about this because there already exists a
`KeyContext` in Flink. Maybe you can rename this one to `InternalKeyContext`
for now because it serves somewhat different purposes.
> Backwards compatibility for HeapKeyedStateBackend serialization format (1.2
> -> 1.3)
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: FLINK-5979
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-5979
> Project: Flink
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: State Backends, Checkpointing
> Affects Versions: 1.3.0
> Reporter: Stefan Richter
> Assignee: Stefan Richter
> Fix For: 1.3.0
>
>
> Changes in {{HeapKeyedStateBackend}} for Flink 1.3 have triggered a change of
> the serialization format. This issue tracks the backwards compatibility story
> between the format in 1.2 and 1.3.
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