[jira] [Created] (BEAM-1336) A StateSpec that doesn't care about the key shouldn't be forced to declare it as type Object

["Kenneth Knowles (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Kenneth Knowles created BEAM-1336:
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             Summary: A StateSpec that doesn't care about the key shouldn't be forced to declare it as type Object
                 Key: BEAM-1336
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BEAM-1336
             Project: Beam
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: sdk-java-core
            Reporter: Kenneth Knowles


In the state API as it exists today, if (as is almost often the case) you are writing a {{StateSpec<K, StateT>}} other than a {{KeyedCombiningState}} the key type is irrelevant and the user just has to write {{Object}} there. This was carried over from {{StateTag}} and is an artifact of the visitor pattern there and the difficulty of getting all the types to line up.

I think simplifying the visitor pattern to be more of just a syntax traversal might alleviate the issue and allow us to drop this noise from the syntax.



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