Github user RonCrocker commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/1851#discussion_r58564095 --- Diff: flink-streaming-java/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/streaming/util/FieldAccessor.java --- @@ -182,11 +182,14 @@ public R set(R record, F fieldValue) { @SuppressWarnings("unchecked") CompositeType<R> cType = (CompositeType<R>) type; + if(field.contains(".")) { + throw new IllegalArgumentException("The Pojo field accessor currently doesn't support nested POJOs"); --- End diff -- Note that the problem reported in [FLINK-3697](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-3697) was not related to accessing a nested field.. Perhaps there should be a subsequent JIRA ticket to support nested POJO accessors.
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