Github user StefanRRichter commented on the issue:
https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/2920
I think the changed semantics makes actually more sense. It should also be
fine for all callers, as returning null to them was also previously possible
and IRC there should be no special meaning to an empty handle in 1.1.
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