Github user fhueske commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/301#issuecomment-71440329
No worries ;-) I understand that discussing such a "trivial" feature feels
like a waste of time. Unfortunately these are the features that are easy to
comment on for "everybody" ;-)
Anyway, I guess we could have both methods besides each other if this
becomes an issue, i.e., add your String approach as configuration option to
FileInputFormat and interprete it in the default `getDirectoryFileName()`
method.
For now, you got my +1 for this change. It does not change the default
behavior and adds a feature.
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