Github user StefanRRichter commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/6196#discussion_r199474152 --- Diff: flink-core/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/api/common/typeutils/CompositeSerializer.java --- @@ -0,0 +1,258 @@ +/* + * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one + * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file + * distributed with this work for additional information + * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file + * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the + * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance + * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at + * + * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 + * + * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software + * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, + * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. + * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and + * limitations under the License. + */ + +package org.apache.flink.api.common.typeutils; + +import org.apache.flink.api.java.tuple.Tuple2; +import org.apache.flink.core.memory.DataInputView; +import org.apache.flink.core.memory.DataOutputView; +import org.apache.flink.util.Preconditions; + +import javax.annotation.Nonnull; + +import java.io.IOException; +import java.util.Arrays; +import java.util.List; +import java.util.Objects; + +/** + * Base class for composite serializers. + * + * <p>This class serializes a composite type using array of its field serializers. + * Fields are indexed the same way as their serializers. + * + * @param <T> type of custom serialized value + */ +public abstract class CompositeSerializer<T> extends TypeSerializer<T> { + private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L; + + protected final TypeSerializer<Object>[] fieldSerializers; + final boolean isImmutableTargetType; + private final int length; + + @SuppressWarnings("unchecked") + protected CompositeSerializer(boolean isImmutableTargetType, TypeSerializer<?> ... fieldSerializers) { + Preconditions.checkNotNull(fieldSerializers); + Preconditions.checkArgument(Arrays.stream(fieldSerializers).allMatch(Objects::nonNull)); + this.isImmutableTargetType = isImmutableTargetType; + this.fieldSerializers = (TypeSerializer<Object>[]) fieldSerializers; + this.length = calcLength(); + } + + /** Create new instance from its fields. */ + public abstract T createInstance(@Nonnull Object ... values); + + /** Modify field of existing instance. Supported only by mutable types. */ + protected abstract void setField(@Nonnull T value, int index, Object fieldValue); + + /** Get field of existing instance. */ + protected abstract Object getField(@Nonnull T value, int index); + + /** Factory for concrete serializer. */ + protected abstract CompositeSerializer<T> createSerializerInstance(TypeSerializer<?> ... originalSerializers); + + @Override + public CompositeSerializer<T> duplicate() { + TypeSerializer[] duplicatedSerializers = new TypeSerializer[fieldSerializers.length]; + boolean stateful = false; + for (int index = 0; index < fieldSerializers.length; index++) { + duplicatedSerializers[index] = fieldSerializers[index].duplicate(); + if (fieldSerializers[index] != duplicatedSerializers[index]) { --- End diff -- I wonder if we need to do these checks every time `duplicate()` is called? We could check it once, remember if all field serializer are stateless and from that point return `this` immediately.
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