[jira] [Reopened] (FLINK-4783) Allow to register TypeInfoFactories manually

["Konstantin Knauf (Jira)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-4783?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Konstantin Knauf reopened FLINK-4783:
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Re-opening in accordance with https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-23206.

> Allow to register TypeInfoFactories manually
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>
>                 Key: FLINK-4783
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-4783
>             Project: Flink
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: API / Type Serialization System
>    Affects Versions: 1.2.0
>            Reporter: Till Rohrmann
>            Assignee: Alexander Alexandrov
>            Priority: Minor
>              Labels: auto-closed, stale-assigned
>
> The newly introduced {{TypeInfoFactories}} (FLINK-3042 and FLINK-3060) allow to create {{TypeInformations}} for types which are annotated with {{TypeInfo}}. This is useful if the user has control over the type for which he wants to generate the {{TypeInformation}}.
> However, annotating a type is not always possible if the type comes from an external library. In this case, it would be good to be able to directly register a {{TypeInfoFactory}} without having to annotate the type.
> The {{TypeExtractor#registerFactory}} already has such a method. However, it is declared private.



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