[jira] [Commented] (FLINK-8364) ListState should return empty iterator rather than null when it has no value

["Fabian Hueske (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Fabian Hueske commented on FLINK-8364:
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Changing the behavior of {{ListState.get()}} might break applications that assume the current behavior of returning {{null}} if the state is empty.
Also, {{get}} is inherited from {{AppendingState}} for which the JavaDocs explicitly state

bq. NOTE TO IMPLEMENTERS: if the state is empty, then this method should return null.

Maybe we should rather add a new method like {{getIterator()}} instead of changing {{get()}}.

> ListState should return empty iterator rather than null when it has no value
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: FLINK-8364
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-8364
>             Project: Flink
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: State Backends, Checkpointing
>    Affects Versions: 1.4.0
>            Reporter: Bowen Li
>            Assignee: Bowen Li
>             Fix For: 1.5.0
>
>
> per discussion with [~stefanrichter83@gmail.com] in https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/4963, we decide to have {{ListState#get}} return empty iterator if it has no value in it.



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