Github user fhueske commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/572#discussion_r28697764 --- Diff: flink-java/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/api/java/operators/Keys.java --- @@ -274,24 +274,31 @@ private static int countNestedElementsBefore(CompositeType<?> compositeType, int * Create ExpressionKeys from String-expressions */ public ExpressionKeys(String[] expressionsIn, TypeInformation<T> type) { - if(!(type instanceof CompositeType<?>)) { - throw new IllegalArgumentException("Key expressions are only supported on POJO types and Tuples. " - + "A type is considered a POJO if all its fields are public, or have both getters and setters defined"); - } - CompositeType<T> cType = (CompositeType<T>) type; - - String[] expressions = removeDuplicates(expressionsIn); - if(expressionsIn.length != expressions.length) { - LOG.warn("The key expressions contained duplicates. They are now unique"); - } - // extract the keys on their flat position - keyFields = new ArrayList<FlatFieldDescriptor>(expressions.length); - for (int i = 0; i < expressions.length; i++) { - List<FlatFieldDescriptor> keys = cType.getFlatFields(expressions[i]); // use separate list to do a size check - if(keys.size() == 0) { - throw new IllegalArgumentException("Unable to extract key from expression '"+expressions[i]+"' on key "+cType); + if (type instanceof AtomicType) { --- End diff -- can you add a `null` check for `expressionsIn`?
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