feature request: broadcast POJO objects as part of runtime context

Posted by Stefano Bortoli on
URL: http://deprecated-apache-flink-user-mailing-list-archive.369.s1.nabble.com/feature-request-broadcast-POJO-objects-as-part-of-runtime-context-tp367.html

Hi,

trying to run some legacy code as part of Flink Job, I had to replicate configurations files across my cluster. Not a big deal with a small cluster, but it would be nice to have these configuration objects broadcast-able. Namely, it would be nice to reuse the old "read from conf file" logic to build objects that then could be serialized and used along the processing through the broadcast mechanism.

Do you think it will be possible? with the new Kryo serialization it should not be extremely complicated.

saluti,
Stefano