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Luke Cwik commented on BEAM-3780:
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LengthPrefixUnknownCoders has methods to create a coder specification for the 
runner and for the SDK. Is the issue that a singular graph representation is 
being used in the Runner so you can differentiate SDK and Runner specific 
segments?

> Add a utility to instantiate a partially unknown coder
> ------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: BEAM-3780
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BEAM-3780
>             Project: Beam
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: runner-core
>            Reporter: Thomas Groh
>            Assignee: Thomas Groh
>            Priority: Major
>
> Coders must be understood by the SDK harness that is encoding or decoding the 
> associated elements. However, the pipeline runner is capable of constructing 
> partial coders, where an unknown coder is replaced with a ByteArrayCoder. It 
> then can decompose the portions of elements it is aware of, without having to 
> understand the custom element encodings.
>  
> This should go in CoderTranslation, as an alternative to the full-fidelity 
> rehydration of a coder.



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