Sounds good to me if possible without breaking anything :-)
On 14 November 2016 at 10:57:26, Andrey Melentyev (andrey.melent...@gmail.com)
wrote:
> Ufuk,
>
> do you think it's still worth fixing the build errors and maybe adding a
> Travis configuration to build and test against 1.8? Or do you think that
> would introduce too much additional overheads? I mean without deprecating
> 1.7 support of course.
>
> Andrey
>
> On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 10:51 AM, Ufuk Celebi wrote:
>
> > As far as I know, there were no concrete discussions about this yet. I
> > would not expect it to happen this year, but maybe/probably in the course
> > of next year. We would have to have a release where we explicitly say that
> > this will be the last major release with 1.7 support, so users running old
> > version have some time to prepare for a 1.8 only release.
> >
> > – Ufuk
> >
> > On 13 November 2016 at 21:52:17, Alberto Ramón (a.ramonporto...@gmail.com)
> > wrote:
> > > Thanks.
> > > Sounds weird I imagine the Flink team have a road-map to migrate to Java
> > 1.8
> > >
> > >
> > > On "Build From source
> > > ":
> > >
> > > "Flink requires *at least Java 7* to build. We recommend using Java 8."
> > >
> > >
> > > 2016-11-13 17:48 GMT+01:00 Andrey Melentyev :
> > >
> > > > Hi Alberto,
> > > >
> > > > it seems that this class is not compatible with Java 8 new type
> > inference
> > > > rules, more specifically the 1.8 compiler picks a different overloaded
> > > > method than 1.7.
> > > >
> > > > In TupleSerializer.java:112 the call to TypeSerializer.copy method in
> > Java
> > > > 7 resolves to
> > > >
> > > > public abstract T copy(T from, T reuse);
> > > >
> > > > while with Java 8 following the new inference rules (which basically
> > > > selects the most specific matching method) the compiler prefers
> > > >
> > > > public abstract void copy(DataInputView source, DataOutputView target)
> > throws
> > > IOException;
> > > >
> > > > and the compilation fails. It's the only place in the production code
> > > > where this change in the compilation logic seems to cause compile-time
> > > > errors. There are a few unit tests that fail to pick the correct
> > overloaded
> > > > method alternative as well.
> > > >
> > > > Since Java 7 is end of life, I think it makes sense to be able to build
> > > > Flink with Java 8 source/target. If you create a Jira for the
> > compilation
> > > > issue, I can suggest a PR fixing the compile-time errors and the tests.
> > > >
> > > > Note that you can still use JDK8 to compile Flink without changing the
> > > > java.version in pom.xml, in this scenario the compiler will not try to
> > use
> > > > 1.8 language features and the compilation will succeed. You can also
> > run
> > > > your Flink cluster using the Java 8 runtime.
> > > >
> > > > Andrey
> > > >
> > > > On Sun, Nov 13, 2016 at 12:29 AM, Alberto Ramón > > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > >> bash> git Clone
> > > >> POM> 1.8
> > > >> bash> java -version ==> java version "1.8.0_111"
> > > >>
> > > >>
> > > >> *Failed to execute goal
> > > >> org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-compiler-plugin:3.1:compile
> > > >> (default-compile) on project flink-core: Compilation failure[ERROR] .
> > . .
> > > >> /flink1.2
> > > >> _10_Nov/flink-core/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/api/
> > java/typeutils/runtime/TupleSerializer.java:[112,63]
> > > >> incompatible types: void cannot be converted to java.lang.Object*
> > > >>
> > > >> is this Normal ?
> > > >> (If I put 1.7, there isn't any problem)
> > > >>
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
