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Status: Resolved
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P3
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Resolution: Fixed
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Description
The name of ToStringCoder class [1] is confusing, since the output of encode() on Python3 will be bytes. On Python 2 the output is also bytes, since bytes and string are synonyms on Py2.
ToBytesCoder would be a better name for this class.
Note that this class is not listed in coders that constitute Public APIs [2], so we can treat this as internal change. As a courtesy to users who happened to reference a non-public coder in their pipelines we can keep the old class name as an alias, e.g. ToStringCoder = ToBytesCoder to avoid friction, but clean up Beam codeabase to use the new name.
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