Reviving this thread again after I came across FLINK-12214 [1] since there are use cases which might benefit from this feature. Was there some conclusion on public APIs in the meantime? Should we proceed with the discussion here?
Best, Matthias [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-12214 -- Sent from: http://apache-flink-user-mailing-list-archive.2336050.n4.nabble.com/