Github user amberarrow commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/incubator-apex-malhar/pull/145#discussion_r56752949
--- Diff:
library/src/main/java/com/datatorrent/lib/state/BucketedState.java ---
@@ -29,11 +31,17 @@
public interface BucketedState
{
/**
+ * An expired value. In some implementations where bucketId is time
related then the event can be old and
+ * the get methods- getSync & getAsync return this special slice
instance.
+ */
+ Slice EXPIRED = new Slice(Ints.toByteArray(-1));
--- End diff --
Using a fixed instance is fine. Worth documenting the `==` part.
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