Github user tillrohrmann commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/5676#discussion_r175832543
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flink-core/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/api/common/TaskInfo.java ---
@@ -107,4 +131,12 @@ public int getAttemptNumber() {
public String getTaskNameWithSubtasks() {
return this.taskNameWithSubtasks;
}
+
+ /**
+ * Returns the allocation id for where this task is executed.
+ * @return the allocation id for where this task is executed.
+ */
+ public String getAllocationID() {
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I'm also not sure whether we want to expose location information to the
`Task`. Given scheduling transparency, this feels a bit wrong. Isn't there a
different way to check whether a task was recovered locally?
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