Github user tillrohrmann commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/6147#discussion_r195076996 --- Diff: flink-runtime/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/runtime/rest/RestClient.java --- @@ -197,6 +208,88 @@ public void shutdown(Time timeout) { executor); } + public <M extends MessageHeaders<R, P, U>, U extends MessageParameters, R extends RequestBody, P extends ResponseBody> CompletableFuture<P> sendRequest( + String targetAddress, + int targetPort, + M messageHeaders, + U messageParameters, + R request, + Collection<Path> jars, + Collection<Path> userArtifacts) throws IOException { --- End diff -- It would be great if the `RestClient` did not know about the distinction between `jars` and `userArtifacts`. Instead it should be enough to provide this method a collection of `FileUpload` objects which contain the path and some meta information to make sense of the different files contained in the body on the receiving side.
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