Github user zentol commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/6071#discussion_r191384185 --- Diff: flink-runtime/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/runtime/rest/handler/router/RoutedRequest.java --- @@ -94,4 +94,14 @@ public ReferenceCounted retain(int arg0) { } return this; } + + @Override + public ReferenceCounted touch() { + return this; + } + + @Override + public ReferenceCounted touch(Object o) { + return this; --- End diff -- We may want to `touch` the contained request as well like in [this](https://github.com/netty/netty/blob/4.1/codec-redis/src/main/java/io/netty/handler/codec/redis/ArrayRedisMessage.java) class, depending on `requestAsReferenceCounted`.
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