Github user zentol commented on the issue: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/2109 yes i think so. I have 2 more issues with this PR. For one the documentation isn't in the correct place i believe. The config.md file specifies configuration parameters for Flink as a system. These parameters are set in the flink-conf.yaml, and are not passed to the InputFormats configure() method. I believe the keys belong into the DataSource section of the Batch Guide, as users have to set the keys using the DataSource#withParameters() method. Which brings me to the second issue: The configure() method is a somewhat antiquated way for users to configure IO-Formats. We now usually use additional arguments in the readTextFile() methods, or additional configuration methods like in readCsvFile(). That said, we can't modify the methods as the ExEnv is @Public, and we can't add another 3-4 variants of readTextFile. We also can't change the return type of readTextFile from DataSource to a more useful TextReader, again because it's @Public. I'm myself not sure whether it really is an issue, and if so how to resolve it Thus I would like others to weigh in on this one before proceeding further.
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