I have a question regarding the future direction of the queryable state feature.
We are current using this feature in production implemented in a RichFlatMap. It is doing what we need it to do at the scale we need it done in, with the resources we have assigned to it. Win. However, we'd also like to use this feature in conjunction with Flink's windowing. The "Rich" execution environment is not exposed in any of the windows / triggers / apply hierarchy, so we cannot expose any of the state managed within the windows outside of Flink. Many of our use cases require us to have access to values as they are being accumulated, as well as the aggregated result. We can get by with the RichFlatMap for now. I'd like some clarification as to whether or not the queryable state feature is going to be extended to the windowing components for the next milestone release. This will determine our Flink development milestones for the next few months. From consulting the open items in JIRA, it does not look like it is on the docket. I'd be more than willing to help out implementing this feature, but I don't think I have the experience to submit this change on my own.
