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dawidwys commented on a change in pull request #6711: [FLINK-9377] [core, state
backends] Remove serializers from checkpoints
URL: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/6711#discussion_r220211873
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File path:
flink-core/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/api/common/typeutils/BackwardsCompatibleConfigSnapshot.java
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+package org.apache.flink.api.common.typeutils;
+
+import org.apache.flink.annotation.Internal;
+import org.apache.flink.annotation.VisibleForTesting;
+import org.apache.flink.core.memory.DataInputView;
+import org.apache.flink.core.memory.DataOutputView;
+import org.apache.flink.util.Preconditions;
+
+import javax.annotation.Nonnull;
+import javax.annotation.Nullable;
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.util.Objects;
+
+/**
+ * A utility {@link TypeSerializerConfigSnapshot} that is used for backwards
compatibility purposes.
+ *
+ * <p>In older versions of Flink (<= 1.6), we used to write state serializers
into checkpoints, along
+ * with the serializer's configuration snapshot. Since 1.7.0, we no longer
wrote the serializers, but
Review comment:
`wrote` -> `write`
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> Remove writing serializers as part of the checkpoint meta information
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>
> Key: FLINK-9377
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-9377
> Project: Flink
> Issue Type: Sub-task
> Components: State Backends, Checkpointing
> Reporter: Tzu-Li (Gordon) Tai
> Assignee: Tzu-Li (Gordon) Tai
> Priority: Critical
> Labels: pull-request-available
> Fix For: 1.7.0
>
>
> When writing meta information of a state in savepoints, we currently write
> both the state serializer as well as the state serializer's configuration
> snapshot.
> Writing both is actually redundant, as most of the time they have identical
> information.
> Moreover, the fact that we use Java serialization to write the serializer
> and rely on it to be re-readable on the restore run, already poses problems
> for serializers such as the {{AvroSerializer}} (see discussion in FLINK-9202)
> to perform even a compatible upgrade.
> The proposal here is to leave only the config snapshot as meta information,
> and use that as the single source of truth of information about the schema of
> serialized state.
> The config snapshot should be treated as a factory (or provided to a
> factory) to re-create serializers capable of reading old, serialized state.
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