[jira] [Created] (BEAM-8156) Finish migration to standard Python typing

["Robert Bradshaw (Jira)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Robert Bradshaw created BEAM-8156:
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             Summary: Finish migration to standard Python typing
                 Key: BEAM-8156
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BEAM-8156
             Project: Beam
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: sdk-py-core
            Reporter: Robert Bradshaw
            Assignee: Udi Meiri


We should migrate all Python uses of types to the standard typing module, and make the typehints.* ones aliases of the Python ones. 

 

There are three places where we use custom typehints behavior: 

(1) is_compatible_with

(2) bind_type_variables/match_type_variables

(3) trivial type inference. 

 

I would propose that each of these be adapted to a (internal) public interface that accepts and returns standard typing types, and internally converts to our (nowhere else exposed) typehints types, performs the logic, and converts back. Each of these in turn can then be updated, as needed and orthogonally, to operate on the typing types natively (possibly via deference to a third-party library). 

 

I think coder inference could be easily adopted to use typing types directly, but it may be a fourth place where we do internal conversion first. Another gotcha is special care may need to be taken if we ever need to pickle these types (which IIRC may have issues). 



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