Tzu-Li (Gordon) Tai created FLINK-21171:
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Summary: Introduce TypedValue to the StateFun request-reply
protocol
Key: FLINK-21171
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-21171
Project: Flink
Issue Type: New Feature
Components: Stateful Functions
Reporter: Tzu-Li (Gordon) Tai
Assignee: Tzu-Li (Gordon) Tai
Fix For: statefun-3.0.0
Currently, all values being passed around via the request-reply protocol, are
of the Protobuf {{Any}} type. This includes payloads of outgoing messages to
other functions, and also state values.
This has a few shortcomings:
* All user records are strictly required to be modeled and wrapped as a
Protobuf message - even for simple primitive type. This makes it awkward to
work with for many common types of messages, for example JSON.
* For data persisted as state, with each state value being a Protobuf {{Any}},
each value would also redundantly store the type urls associated with each
Protobuf message.
Instead, we'd like to introduced a {{TypedValue}} construct that replaces
{{Any}} everywhere in the protocol, for both messages and state values:
{code}
message TypedValue {
string typename = 1;
bytes value = 2;
}
{code}
The {{typename}} here directly maps to the type concept introduced in
FLINK-21061.
For state, we directly write the value bytes of a {{TypedValue}} into state,
and the {{typename}} is the meta information snapshotted by the state
serializer (see FLINK-21061).
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