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ASF GitHub Bot commented on FLINK-8364: --------------------------------------- Github user StefanRRichter commented on the issue: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/5356 I wonder why we need to introduce a separate method for an iterator instead of just changing the `get()` method to return `Collections.emptyList()` as iterable in case of null value. Wouldn't that be more straight forward? > Add iterator() to ListState which returns empty iterator when it has no value > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: FLINK-8364 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-8364 > Project: Flink > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: State Backends, Checkpointing > Affects Versions: 1.4.0 > Reporter: Bowen Li > Assignee: Bowen Li > Priority: Major > Fix For: 1.5.0 > > > Add iterator() to ListState which returns empty iterator when it has no value -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v7.6.3#76005)