GitHub user tillrohrmann opened a pull request: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/3972
[FLINK-6662] [errMsg] Improve error message if recovery from RetrievableStateHandles fails When recovering state from a ZooKeeperStateHandleStore it can happen that the deserialization fails, because one tries to recover state from an old Flink version which is not compatible. In this case we should output a better error message such that the user can easily spot the problem. You can merge this pull request into a Git repository by running: $ git pull https://github.com/tillrohrmann/flink improveErrorMessages Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/3972.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 #3972 ---- commit 31d099c4768f1ee8dfbecfd8eddc6f05842425e6 Author: Till Rohrmann <trohrm...@apache.org> Date: 2017-05-23T13:42:38Z [FLINK-6662] [errMsg] Improve error message if recovery from RetrievableStateHandles fails When recovering state from a ZooKeeperStateHandleStore it can happen that the deserialization fails, because one tries to recover state from an old Flink version which is not compatible. In this case we should output a better error message such that the user can easily spot the problem. ---- --- 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. ---