Re: How heap state backend serialization happens during snapshotting

2021-08-27 Thread JING ZHANG
Hello, Let me share my views on this issue, correct me if there is anything wrong. To get a state handle, you have to create a StateDescriptor. This holds the name of the state, the type of the values that the state holds and other information. You could pass the type serializer or the type

How heap state backend serialization happens during snapshotting

2021-08-26 Thread Muhammad Haseeb Asif
Hello, I have been trying to understand how serialization works for the Flink Heap Keyed state backend when a checkpoint happens. I want to know how Flink knows which type of serializer to use to serialize the values for different states during the snapshot. I have debugged both RocksDB and