Github user fhueske commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/4105#discussion_r122447088 --- Diff: flink-libraries/flink-table/src/main/scala/org/apache/flink/table/functions/utils/UserDefinedFunctionUtils.scala --- @@ -307,9 +315,29 @@ object UserDefinedFunctionUtils { aggregateFunction: AggregateFunction[_, _], extractedType: TypeInformation[_] = null) : TypeInformation[_] = { + getGenericTypeOfAggregateFunction(aggregateFunction, "getResultType", 0, extractedType) + } + + /** + * Internal method of AggregateFunction#getAccumulatorType() that does some pre-checking + * and uses [[TypeExtractor]] as default return type inference. + */ + def getAccumulatorTypeOfAggregateFunction( + aggregateFunction: AggregateFunction[_, _], + extractedType: TypeInformation[_] = null) + : TypeInformation[_] = { + getGenericTypeOfAggregateFunction(aggregateFunction, "getAccumulatorType", 1, extractedType) + } + + private def getGenericTypeOfAggregateFunction( --- End diff -- I would not call the method `getGenericTypeOfAggFunction` because this implies that it returns a `GenericType` which we want to avoid.
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