Github user tzulitai commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/4691#discussion_r141047777
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flink-runtime/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/runtime/rest/handler/legacy/messages/ClusterConfiguration.java
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+package org.apache.flink.runtime.rest.handler.legacy.messages;
+
+import org.apache.flink.configuration.Configuration;
+import org.apache.flink.runtime.rest.handler.legacy.ClusterConfigHandler;
+import org.apache.flink.runtime.rest.messages.ResponseBody;
+
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+
+/**
+ * Response of the {@link ClusterConfigHandler}, respresented as a list
+ * of key-value pairs of the cluster {@link Configuration}.
+ */
+public class ClusterConfiguration extends
ArrayList<ClusterConfigurationEntry> implements ResponseBody {
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Yes, I found the original use of the JSONArray structure very strange also.
We can include a change for this probably when we also re-work the REST
resource path for this handler.
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