GitHub user aljoscha opened a pull request: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/3562
[FLINK-6018] Add tests for KryoSerializer restore with registered types This is the result of the discussion in #3534. I changed `TypeSerializer.isCompatibleWith()` to `TypeSerializer.canRestoreFrom` because the relation is not necessarily symmetric. I added a `KryoSerializer.canRestoreFrom()` that only allows restoring when we previously didn't have registered types/serializers. I added a whole bunch of tests in `StateBackendTestBase`, this should be review most thoroughly. R: @StephanEwen and @tzulitai because this probably is interesting with the serialiser update story that you're working on. You can merge this pull request into a Git repository by running: $ git pull https://github.com/aljoscha/flink jira-6018-state-init-fixups Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/3562.patch To close this pull request, make a commit to your master/trunk branch with (at least) the following in the commit message: This closes #3562 ---- commit f0c3af53d24a3eac914cf1ceb3b1761a40553dfe Author: Aljoscha Krettek <aljoscha.kret...@gmail.com> Date: 2017-03-16T14:17:05Z [FLINK-6018] Add tests for KryoSerializer restore with registered types commit b90cf5cad5176d8edcbd189a9b65cc4999cddd53 Author: Aljoscha Krettek <aljoscha.kret...@gmail.com> Date: 2017-03-17T09:56:13Z [FLINK-6018] Rename isCompatibleWith() to canRestoreFrom() This make the method asymetric because in the case of KryoSerializer we can restore from state that was stored using no registed types/serializers while the other way around is not possible. ---- --- If your project is set up for it, you can reply to this email and have your reply appear on GitHub as well. If your project does not have this feature enabled and wishes so, or if the feature is enabled but not working, please contact infrastructure at infrastruct...@apache.org or file a JIRA ticket with INFRA. ---