Github user StephanEwen commented on the issue:
https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/2337
@twalthr and me had an offline review of this.
The general approach is "+1"
We decided to see if the "generic input variable mapping" can be part of
the `TypeInformation`, rather than the `TypeInfoFactory`. That would make for
cleaner code.
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