Github user StephanEwen commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/3001#discussion_r92366454 --- Diff: flink-connectors/flink-connector-kinesis/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/streaming/connectors/kinesis/FlinkKinesisConsumer.java --- @@ -267,20 +269,20 @@ public void close() throws Exception { // ------------------------------------------------------------------------ @Override - public HashMap<KinesisStreamShard, SequenceNumber> snapshotState(long checkpointId, long checkpointTimestamp) throws Exception { + public List<Tuple2<KinesisStreamShard, SequenceNumber>> snapshotState(long checkpointId, long checkpointTimestamp) throws Exception { if (lastStateSnapshot == null) { LOG.debug("snapshotState() requested on not yet opened source; returning null."); - return null; + return new ArrayList<>(); --- End diff -- Its good style to avoid creating empty lists. Use `Collections.emptyList()` instead.
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