Github user aljoscha commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/5732#discussion_r176220974 --- Diff: flink-core/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/api/common/state/StateDescriptor.java --- @@ -77,18 +80,22 @@ /** The serializer for the type. May be eagerly initialized in the constructor, * or lazily once the type is serialized or an ExecutionConfig is provided. */ + @Nullable protected TypeSerializer<T> serializer; + /** The type information describing the value type. Only used to lazily create the serializer --- End diff -- nit: I think this was also a copying error in the original comment, but this is not necessarily a "value", unless we simply thing of all state as a value, in which case I'm fine with this.
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