Github user StephanEwen commented on the pull request: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/1048#issuecomment-135765919 Explicit would mean here to send something where the receiver knows that he has to deserialize. Whether through a dedicated message, or a SerializedThrowable that is NOT a Throwable would not make much difference.
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