Timo Walther created FLINK-7452: ----------------------------------- Summary: Add helper methods for all built-in Flink types to Types Key: FLINK-7452 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-7452 Project: Flink Issue Type: Improvement Components: Type Serialization System Reporter: Timo Walther Assignee: Timo Walther
Sometimes it is very difficult to provide `TypeInformation` manually, in case some extraction fails or is not available. {{TypeHint}}s should be the preferred way but this methods can ensure correct types. I propose to add all built-in Flink types to the {{Types}}. Such as: {code} Types.POJO(MyPojo.class) Types.POJO(Map<String, TypeInformation>) Types.GENERIC(Object.class) Types.TUPLE(TypeInformation, ...) Types.MAP(TypeInformation, TypeInformation) {code} The methods should validate that the returned type is exactly the requested type. And especially in case of POJO should help creating {{PojoTypeInfo}}. Once this is in place, we can deprecate the {{TypeInfoParser}}. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.4.14#64029)