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Congxian Qiu(klion26) commented on FLINK-11825: ----------------------------------------------- [~fhueske] If you do not mind, I could help to implement this. I think the first solution is better because we can maintain TimeCharacteristic in one place and we may support the other TimeCharacteristics for TTL state in the future. > Resolve name clash of StateTTL TimeCharacteristic class > ------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: FLINK-11825 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-11825 > Project: Flink > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: Runtime / State Backends > Affects Versions: 1.7.2 > Reporter: Fabian Hueske > Priority: Major > > The StateTTL feature introduced the class > \{{org.apache.flink.api.common.state.TimeCharacteristic}} which clashes with > \{{org.apache.flink.streaming.api.TimeCharacteristic}}. > This is a problem for two reasons: > 1. Users get confused because the mistakenly import > \{{org.apache.flink.api.common.state.TimeCharacteristic}}. > 2. When using the StateTTL feature, users need to spell out the package name > for \{{org.apache.flink.api.common.state.TimeCharacteristic}} because the > other class is most likely already imported. > Since \{{org.apache.flink.streaming.api.TimeCharacteristic}} is one of the > most used classes of the DataStream API, we should make sure that users can > use it without import problems. > These error are hard to spot and confusing for many users. > I see two ways to resolve the issue: > 1. drop \{{org.apache.flink.api.common.state.TimeCharacteristic}} and use > \{{org.apache.flink.streaming.api.TimeCharacteristic}} throwing an exception > if an incorrect characteristic is used. > 2. rename the class \{{org.apache.flink.api.common.state.TimeCharacteristic}} > to some other name. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v7.6.3#76005)