Github user EronWright commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/4767#discussion_r142700416 --- Diff: flink-runtime/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/runtime/rest/RestClient.java --- @@ -275,4 +301,121 @@ public HttpResponseStatus getHttpResponseStatus() { return httpResponseStatus; } } + + public <M extends MessageHeaders<EmptyRequestBody, WebSocketUpgradeResponseBody, U>, U extends MessageParameters, R extends ResponseBody> CompletableFuture<WebSocket> sendWebSocketRequest(String targetAddress, int targetPort, M messageHeaders, U messageParameters, Class<R> messageClazz, WebSocketListener... listeners) throws IOException { --- End diff -- I too was unhappy about using a special response body, but felt that the alternative required some rework of the REST handler that was best done in a follow-up. With some rework we can eliminate the funky response body.
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