Github user StephanEwen commented on the pull request: https://github.com/apache/flink/commit/554b77bcd9ed66d57d99d4990774a43f35f6a835#commitcomment-12965891 I think this is a good addition. In the future (Hadoop not present), we may have to go for reflection, true.
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