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Gyula Fora commented on FLINK-6742: ----------------------------------- In my case I would like to remove 2 operators while migrating because the state for those is not compatible (basically just changing the uids for those). In this case it actually becomes a techincal hurdle :D > Savepoint conversion might fail if operators change > --------------------------------------------------- > > Key: FLINK-6742 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-6742 > Project: Flink > Issue Type: Bug > Components: State Backends, Checkpointing > Affects Versions: 1.3.0 > Reporter: Gyula Fora > Priority: Critical > > Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException > at > org.apache.flink.runtime.checkpoint.savepoint.SavepointV2.convertToOperatorStateSavepointV2(SavepointV2.java:171) > at > org.apache.flink.runtime.checkpoint.savepoint.SavepointLoader.loadAndValidateSavepoint(SavepointLoader.java:75) > at > org.apache.flink.runtime.checkpoint.CheckpointCoordinator.restoreSavepoint(CheckpointCoordinator.java:1090) -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.15#6346)