Github user FredTing commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/5958#discussion_r186479633 --- Diff: flink-core/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/api/common/serialization/DeserializationSchema.java --- @@ -42,14 +42,22 @@ @Public public interface DeserializationSchema<T> extends Serializable, ResultTypeQueryable<T> { + /** + * @deprecated Use {@link #deserialize(ConsumerRecordMetaInfo)} . --- End diff -- I added some more text to the javadoc explaining that implementing the other `deserialize` method has more benefits.
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