Good problem...
We were thinking for a while to make the input and output type serializers
available from the RuntimeContext.
That way you could call "T copy = serializer.copy(inValue)".
The "copy()" method on the copyable value is actually a good addition
nonetheless!
On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at
What is best practice for handling Java type erasure in user defined
functions? Is there a means by which the TypeInformation can be accessed
from a RichFunction? My temporary solution was to add a "T copy()" method
to the CopyableValue interface.
A common use case is a GroupReduceFunction that
