Tzu-Li (Gordon) Tai created FLINK-6565: ------------------------------------------
Summary: Improve error messages for state restore failures Key: FLINK-6565 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-6565 Project: Flink Issue Type: Improvement Components: State Backends, Checkpointing Affects Versions: 1.3.0 Reporter: Tzu-Li (Gordon) Tai Assignee: Tzu-Li (Gordon) Tai Priority: Critical The error messages thrown when state restore fails needs to be more explicit and clear of the actual reason. At least 2 cases we've seen so far: 1. For example, currently, when restoring an operator state or memory-backed keyed state, the previous serializer must exist. If it doesn't exist, currently only a vague NPE is thrown, without a clear message of the actual reason. 2. If the restore failure was due to an incompatible version of a serializer's config snapshot, then it should report something more informative then: "Incompatible version: found 1, required 1." -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.15#6346)