[FLINK-3695] ValueArray types

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Implemented
• Affects Version/s: 1.1.0
• Fix Version/s: 1.3.0
• Component/s: API / Type Serialization System
• Assignee: Greg Hogan
• Reporter: Greg Hogan
• Created: 04/Apr/16 15:14
• Updated: 02/Oct/19 17:45
• Resolved: 31/Mar/17 16:41

Description

Flink provides mutable Value type implementations of Java primitives along with efficient serializers and comparators. It would be useful to have corresponding ValueArray implementations backed by primitive rather than object arrays, along with an ArrayableValue interface tying a Value to its ValueArray.

Issue Links

• depends upon: FLINK-3042 Define a way to let types create their own TypeInformation
• is depended upon by: FLINK-4965 AllPairsShortestPaths
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #3382