[BEAM-597] Provide type information from Coders

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: P3
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.5.0
• Component/s: sdk-java-core
• Labels: Done
• Assignee: Jeremie Lenfant-Engelmann
• Reporter: Jeremie Lenfant-Engelmann
• Created: 26/Aug/16 20:14
• Updated: 06/Oct/20 21:52
• Resolved: 18/May/17 19:02

Description

The Coder interface should return a TypeDescriptor describing the type that is currently encoded/decoded by the Coder.

Issue Links

• relates to: BEAM-1255 java.io.NotSerializableException in flink on UnboundedSource
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #968
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #1537
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #1537