diff --git a/flink-core/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/api/connector/sink2/StatefulSink.java b/flink-core/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/api/connector/sink2/StatefulSink.java
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+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+package org.apache.flink.api.connector.sink2;
+
+import org.apache.flink.annotation.PublicEvolving;
+
+/**
+ * A {@link Sink} with a stateful {@link SinkWriter}.
+ *
+ *
This interface is retained as a deprecated bridge for connectors compiled against Flink 1.x
+ * that reference this type. It was originally removed in Flink 2.0 (FLINK-36245) but restored to
+ * ease migration, as the connector ecosystem had not fully migrated to the mixin pattern introduced
+ * in FLIP-372.
+ *
+ *
New connector implementations should directly implement {@link Sink} and {@link
+ * SupportsWriterState} instead.
+ *
+ * @param The type of the sink's input
+ * @param The type of the sink writer's state
+ * @deprecated Implement {@link Sink} and {@link SupportsWriterState} instead. This interface exists
+ * solely as a binary compatibility bridge for connectors compiled against Flink 1.x and will be
+ * removed in a future release.
+ */
+@PublicEvolving
+@Deprecated
+public interface StatefulSink
+ extends Sink, SupportsWriterState {
+
+ /**
+ * A mix-in for {@link StatefulSink} that allows users to migrate from a sink with a compatible
+ * state to this sink.
+ *
+ * @deprecated Use {@link SupportsWriterState.WithCompatibleState} instead.
+ */
+ @PublicEvolving
+ @Deprecated
+ interface WithCompatibleState extends SupportsWriterState.WithCompatibleState {}
+
+ /**
+ * A {@link SinkWriter} whose state needs to be checkpointed.
+ *
+ * @param The type of the sink writer's input
+ * @param The type of the writer's state
+ * @deprecated Use {@link org.apache.flink.api.connector.sink2.StatefulSinkWriter} directly.
+ */
+ @PublicEvolving
+ @Deprecated
+ interface StatefulSinkWriter
+ extends org.apache.flink.api.connector.sink2.StatefulSinkWriter {}
+}
diff --git a/flink-core/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/api/connector/sink2/TwoPhaseCommittingSink.java b/flink-core/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/api/connector/sink2/TwoPhaseCommittingSink.java
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+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+package org.apache.flink.api.connector.sink2;
+
+import org.apache.flink.annotation.PublicEvolving;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+
+/**
+ * A {@link Sink} for exactly-once semantics using a two-phase commit protocol. The {@link Sink}
+ * consists of a {@link SinkWriter} that performs the precommits and a {@link Committer} that
+ * actually commits the data. To facilitate the separation the {@link SinkWriter} creates
+ * committables on checkpoint or end of input and then sends it to the {@link Committer}.
+ *
+ * This interface is retained as a deprecated bridge for connectors compiled against Flink 1.x
+ * that reference this type. It was originally removed in Flink 2.0 (FLINK-36245) but restored to
+ * ease migration, as the connector ecosystem had not fully migrated to the mixin pattern introduced
+ * in FLIP-372.
+ *
+ *
New connector implementations should directly implement {@link Sink} and {@link
+ * SupportsCommitter} instead.
+ *
+ * @param The type of the sink's input
+ * @param The type of the committables.
+ * @deprecated Implement {@link Sink} and {@link SupportsCommitter} instead. This interface exists
+ * solely as a binary compatibility bridge for connectors compiled against Flink 1.x and will be
+ * removed in a future release.
+ */
+@PublicEvolving
+@Deprecated
+public interface TwoPhaseCommittingSink
+ extends Sink, SupportsCommitter {
+
+ /**
+ * Creates a {@link Committer} that permanently makes the previously written data visible
+ * through {@link Committer#commit(java.util.Collection)}.
+ *
+ * @return A committer for the two-phase commit protocol.
+ * @throws IOException for any failure during creation.
+ * @deprecated Please use {@link #createCommitter(CommitterInitContext)}.
+ */
+ @Deprecated
+ default Committer createCommitter() throws IOException {
+ throw new UnsupportedOperationException(
+ "Override either createCommitter() or createCommitter(CommitterInitContext)");
+ }
+
+ /**
+ * Creates a {@link Committer}. Delegates to the no-arg {@link #createCommitter()} by default to
+ * support connectors compiled against Flink 1.x that only overrode the no-arg variant.
+ */
+ @Override
+ default Committer createCommitter(CommitterInitContext context) throws IOException {
+ return createCommitter();
+ }
+
+ /**
+ * A {@link SinkWriter} that performs the first part of a two-phase commit protocol.
+ *
+ * @deprecated Use {@link CommittingSinkWriter} directly.
+ */
+ @PublicEvolving
+ @Deprecated
+ interface PrecommittingSinkWriter extends CommittingSinkWriter {}
+}
diff --git a/flink-core/src/test/java/org/apache/flink/api/connector/sink2/StatefulSinkBridgeTest.java b/flink-core/src/test/java/org/apache/flink/api/connector/sink2/StatefulSinkBridgeTest.java
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+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+package org.apache.flink.api.connector.sink2;
+
+import org.apache.flink.core.io.SimpleVersionedSerializer;
+
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.util.Collection;
+import java.util.Collections;
+import java.util.List;
+
+import static org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.assertThat;
+
+class StatefulSinkBridgeTest {
+
+ @Test
+ void statefulSinkIsRecognizedAsSink() {
+ TestStatefulSink sink = new TestStatefulSink();
+ assertThat(sink).isInstanceOf(Sink.class);
+ }
+
+ @Test
+ void statefulSinkIsRecognizedAsSupportsWriterState() {
+ TestStatefulSink sink = new TestStatefulSink();
+ assertThat(sink).isInstanceOf(SupportsWriterState.class);
+ }
+
+ @Test
+ void statefulSinkWriterExtendsCoreSinkWriter() {
+ assertThat(StatefulSinkWriter.class)
+ .isAssignableFrom(StatefulSink.StatefulSinkWriter.class);
+ }
+
+ @Test
+ void withCompatibleStateExtendsCoreWithCompatibleState() {
+ assertThat(SupportsWriterState.WithCompatibleState.class)
+ .isAssignableFrom(StatefulSink.WithCompatibleState.class);
+ }
+
+ private static class TestStatefulSink implements StatefulSink {
+
+ @Override
+ public SinkWriter createWriter(WriterInitContext context) throws IOException {
+ return new TestStatefulSinkWriter();
+ }
+
+ @Override
+ public StatefulSinkWriter restoreWriter(
+ WriterInitContext context, Collection recoveredState) throws IOException {
+ return new TestStatefulSinkWriter();
+ }
+
+ @Override
+ public SimpleVersionedSerializer getWriterStateSerializer() {
+ return new SimpleVersionedSerializer<>() {
+ @Override
+ public int getVersion() {
+ return 0;
+ }
+
+ @Override
+ public byte[] serialize(Integer obj) {
+ return new byte[0];
+ }
+
+ @Override
+ public Integer deserialize(int version, byte[] serialized) {
+ return 0;
+ }
+ };
+ }
+ }
+
+ private static class TestStatefulSinkWriter
+ implements StatefulSink.StatefulSinkWriter {
+
+ @Override
+ public List snapshotState(long checkpointId) {
+ return Collections.emptyList();
+ }
+
+ @Override
+ public void write(String element, Context context) {}
+
+ @Override
+ public void flush(boolean endOfInput) {}
+
+ @Override
+ public void close() {}
+ }
+}
diff --git a/flink-core/src/test/java/org/apache/flink/api/connector/sink2/TwoPhaseCommittingSinkBridgeTest.java b/flink-core/src/test/java/org/apache/flink/api/connector/sink2/TwoPhaseCommittingSinkBridgeTest.java
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+++ b/flink-core/src/test/java/org/apache/flink/api/connector/sink2/TwoPhaseCommittingSinkBridgeTest.java
@@ -0,0 +1,153 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+package org.apache.flink.api.connector.sink2;
+
+import org.apache.flink.core.io.SimpleVersionedSerializer;
+
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.util.Collection;
+import java.util.Collections;
+
+import static org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.assertThat;
+
+class TwoPhaseCommittingSinkBridgeTest {
+
+ @Test
+ void twoPhaseCommittingSinkIsRecognizedAsSink() {
+ TestTwoPhaseCommittingSink sink = new TestTwoPhaseCommittingSink();
+ assertThat(sink).isInstanceOf(Sink.class);
+ }
+
+ @Test
+ void twoPhaseCommittingSinkIsRecognizedAsSupportsCommitter() {
+ TestTwoPhaseCommittingSink sink = new TestTwoPhaseCommittingSink();
+ assertThat(sink).isInstanceOf(SupportsCommitter.class);
+ }
+
+ @Test
+ void precommittingSinkWriterExtendsCommittingSinkWriter() {
+ assertThat(CommittingSinkWriter.class)
+ .isAssignableFrom(TwoPhaseCommittingSink.PrecommittingSinkWriter.class);
+ }
+
+ @Test
+ void noArgCreateCommitterDelegation() throws IOException {
+ LegacyTwoPhaseCommittingSink sink = new LegacyTwoPhaseCommittingSink();
+ Committer committer = sink.createCommitter(null);
+ assertThat(committer).isNotNull();
+ }
+
+ private static class TestTwoPhaseCommittingSink
+ implements TwoPhaseCommittingSink {
+
+ @Override
+ public SinkWriter createWriter(WriterInitContext context) throws IOException {
+ return new TestPrecommittingWriter();
+ }
+
+ @Override
+ public Committer createCommitter(CommitterInitContext context) throws IOException {
+ return new TestCommitter();
+ }
+
+ @Override
+ public SimpleVersionedSerializer getCommittableSerializer() {
+ return new SimpleVersionedSerializer<>() {
+ @Override
+ public int getVersion() {
+ return 0;
+ }
+
+ @Override
+ public byte[] serialize(String obj) {
+ return new byte[0];
+ }
+
+ @Override
+ public String deserialize(int version, byte[] serialized) {
+ return "";
+ }
+ };
+ }
+ }
+
+ /** Simulates a 1.x connector that only overrides the no-arg createCommitter(). */
+ private static class LegacyTwoPhaseCommittingSink
+ implements TwoPhaseCommittingSink {
+
+ @Override
+ public SinkWriter createWriter(WriterInitContext context) throws IOException {
+ return new TestPrecommittingWriter();
+ }
+
+ @Override
+ public Committer createCommitter() throws IOException {
+ return new TestCommitter();
+ }
+
+ @Override
+ public SimpleVersionedSerializer getCommittableSerializer() {
+ return new SimpleVersionedSerializer<>() {
+ @Override
+ public int getVersion() {
+ return 0;
+ }
+
+ @Override
+ public byte[] serialize(String obj) {
+ return new byte[0];
+ }
+
+ @Override
+ public String deserialize(int version, byte[] serialized) {
+ return "";
+ }
+ };
+ }
+ }
+
+ private static class TestPrecommittingWriter
+ implements TwoPhaseCommittingSink.PrecommittingSinkWriter {
+
+ @Override
+ public Collection prepareCommit() {
+ return Collections.emptyList();
+ }
+
+ @Override
+ public void write(String element, Context context) {}
+
+ @Override
+ public void flush(boolean endOfInput) {}
+
+ @Override
+ public void close() {}
+ }
+
+ private static class TestCommitter implements Committer {
+
+ @Override
+ public void commit(Collection> committables) {}
+
+ @Override
+ public void close() {}
+ }
+}