[jira] [Updated] (FLINK-1045) Remove Combinable Annotation

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

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-1045?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Fabian Hueske updated FLINK-1045:
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    Component/s:     (was: Java API)
                     (was: Scala API)
                 DataSet API

> Remove Combinable Annotation
> ----------------------------
>
>                 Key: FLINK-1045
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-1045
>             Project: Flink
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: DataSet API
>            Reporter: Fabian Hueske
>            Priority: Minor
>              Labels: api-change, breaking-api
>
> Since the {{combine()}} method was extracted into an interface, we can check if a function is combinable by checking if the interface is implemented.
> Hence, the {{Combinable}} annotation could be removed, IMHO.
> However, this would change the API because {{RichGroupReduceFunction}} could no longer have a default implementation of {{combine()}} that can be enabled by attaching the annotation.
> Right now, the {{Combinable}} annotation is just not necessary as the implementation of the interface tells the system everything it needs to know.
> Removing the {{Combinable}} annotation would also make the handling of different combinable functions easier. For example a function that implements the interfaces {{GroupReduceFunction}} and {{FlatCombineFunction}} does not need to attach the annotation.
> Since this is not a big, but API changing change, I would like to get it into 0.6 (if we decide to do it).
> What do you guys think?



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