GitHub user aljoscha opened a pull request: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/671
Clean up naming of State/Checkpoint Interfaces The interfaces are used on StreamTask (for now) but were called *Operator. Also, the methods on operator were suggesting that it is only user function state while it could also be state of a stateful system operator such as a windowing operator. You can merge this pull request into a Git repository by running: $ git pull https://github.com/aljoscha/flink state-cleanup Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/671.patch To close this pull request, make a commit to your master/trunk branch with (at least) the following in the commit message: This closes #671 ---- commit 0c7e9ec56614ce1662193d23041ba457d13ba74b Author: Aljoscha Krettek <aljoscha.kret...@gmail.com> Date: 2015-05-13T10:15:28Z Clean up naming of State/Checkpoint Interfaces The interfaces are used on StreamTask (for now) but were called *Operator. Also, the methods on operator were suggesting that it is only user function state while it could also be state of a stateful system operator such as a windowing operator. ---- --- If your project is set up for it, you can reply to this email and have your reply appear on GitHub as well. If your project does not have this feature enabled and wishes so, or if the feature is enabled but not working, please contact infrastructure at infrastruct...@apache.org or file a JIRA ticket with INFRA. ---