Gyula Fora created FLINK-2983: --------------------------------- Summary: Add StateLoader as an alternative to default KvState Key: FLINK-2983 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-2983 Project: Flink Issue Type: Improvement Components: Streaming Reporter: Gyula Fora
To create key-value states the user currently needs to specify a default state value that will be returned on first access. Even though this support nulls for implementing the initialization logic this is not a clean solution. I propose to allow the user to pass a StateLoader instance which would load the default state: interface StateLoader<I, K,S>{ S loadState(K key, I currentInput); } The default value implementation could also use the state loader logic where the stateloader would just return a copy of the given value on the loadState call. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)