Github user StephanEwen commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/2456#discussion_r77492004 --- Diff: flink-runtime/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/runtime/jobgraph/tasks/InputSplitProvider.java --- @@ -35,4 +35,16 @@ * task shall not consume any further input splits. */ InputSplit getNextInputSplit(); + + /** + * Starts the input split provider with a user code class loader. + * + * @param userCodeClassLoader User code class loader to use by the input split provider + */ + void start(ClassLoader userCodeClassLoader); --- End diff -- Is it possible to have the `start()` and `stop()` methods not in the base interface, but only in the Akka specific implementation?
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