+1 On Fri, Oct 14, 2016 at 11:54 AM, Greg Hogan <c...@greghogan.com> wrote:
> +1 > > On Fri, Oct 14, 2016 at 5:29 AM, Fabian Hueske <fhue...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi everybody, > > > > I would like to propose to deprecate the utility methods to read data > with > > Hadoop InputFormats from the (batch) ExecutionEnvironment. > > > > The motivation for deprecating these methods is reduce Flink's dependency > > on Hadoop but rather have Hadoop as an optional dependency for users that > > actually need it (HDFS, MapRed-Compat, ...). Eventually, we want to have > > Flink distribution that does not have a hard Hadoop dependency. > > > > One step for this is to remove the Hadoop dependency from flink-java > > (Flink's Java DataSet API) which is currently required due to the above > > utility methods (see FLINK-4315). We recently received a PR that > addresses > > FLINK-4315 and removes the Hadoop methods from the ExecutionEnvironment. > > After some discussion, it was decided to defer the PR to Flink 2.0 > because > > it breaks the API (these methods are delared @PublicEvolving). > > > > I propose to accept this PR for Flink 1.2, but instead of removing the > > methods deprecating them. > > This would help to migrate old code and prevent new usage of these > methods. > > For a later Flink release (1.3 or 2.0) we could remove these methods and > > the Hadoop dependency on flink-java. > > > > What do others think? > > > > Best, Fabian > > >
