[BEAM-2950] Provide implicit access to State

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: P2
• Resolution: Won't Fix
• Fix Version/s: Not applicable
• Component/s: sdk-java-core
• Labels: Done
• Assignee: Kenneth Knowles
• Reporter: Eugene Kirpichov
• Created: 12/Sep/17 23:08
• Updated: 06/Oct/20 21:52
• Resolved: 12/Feb/18 19:11

Description

https://github.com/apache/beam/pull/3814 provides implicit access to side inputs (without a ProcessContext). Luke suggests to have the same for State and, I suppose, timers. We could also have it for PipelineOptions: in any given user code invocation, these are all unambiguous.