Github user twalthr commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/2337#discussion_r77777227
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flink-core/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/api/common/typeinfo/TypeInformation.java
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@@ -122,14 +123,25 @@
public abstract Class<T> getTypeClass();
/**
- * Returns the generic parameters of this type.
+ * Optional method for giving Flink's type extraction system
information about the mapping
+ * of a generic type parameter to the type information of a subtype.
This information is necessary
+ * in cases where type information should be deduced from an input type.
*
- * @return The list of generic parameters. This list can be empty.
+ * For instance, a method for a {@link Tuple2} would look like this:
+ * <code>
+ * Map m = new HashMap();
+ * m.put("T0", this.getTypeAt(0));
+ * m.put("T1", this.getTypeAt(1));
+ * return m;
+ * </code>
+ *
+ * @return map of inferred subtypes; it must not contain all generic
parameters as key;
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You are right, "it doesn't have to contain..." would be better. What I
wanted to say is: It is also ok to just supply partial type information for
generic parameters (so returning an empty map is always acceptable).
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