Re: Type Hints in the Java API

2015-01-12 Thread Timo Walther
Thanks for the doc! I will add a complete list of all currently supported types (including Enums, Writables etc. not metioned in the doc) and types that will be supported in near future (e.g. multi-dimensional arrays). On 09.01.2015 17:37, Stephan Ewen wrote: Here is a doc that details type

Re: Type Hints in the Java API

2015-01-09 Thread Stephan Ewen
Here is a doc that details type handling/extraction for both the Java API and the Scala API, including the type hints. https://github.com/apache/flink/blob/master/docs/internal_types_serialization.md Enjoy :-) On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 12:26 PM, Vasiliki Kalavri wrote: > Hi, > > thanks for the ni

Re: Type Hints in the Java API

2015-01-09 Thread Vasiliki Kalavri
Hi, thanks for the nice explanation and the great work! This will simplify our Graph API-lives a lot ^^ Cheers, V. On 9 January 2015 at 11:59, Stephan Ewen wrote: > I am adding a derivative of that text to the docs right now. > > > > On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 11:54 AM, Robert Metzger > wrote: >

Re: Type Hints in the Java API

2015-01-09 Thread Stephan Ewen
I am adding a derivative of that text to the docs right now. On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 11:54 AM, Robert Metzger wrote: > Thank you! > > It would be amazing if you or somebody else could copy paste this into our > documentation. > > On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 11:44 AM, Stephan Ewen wrote: > > > Hi ev

Re: Type Hints in the Java API

2015-01-09 Thread Robert Metzger
Thank you! It would be amazing if you or somebody else could copy paste this into our documentation. On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 11:44 AM, Stephan Ewen wrote: > Hi everyone! > > We recently introduced type hints for the Java API. Since that is a pretty > useful feature, I wanted to quickly explain w

Type Hints in the Java API

2015-01-09 Thread Stephan Ewen
Hi everyone! We recently introduced type hints for the Java API. Since that is a pretty useful feature, I wanted to quickly explain what it is. Kudos to Timo Walther, who did a large part of this work. *Background* Flink tries to figure out as much information about what types enter and leave