[BEAM-2061] Hint to template job creation in DataflowRunner / DataflowPipelineOptions

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: P4
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 0.6.0
• Component/s: runner-dataflow
• Labels: documentation starter
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Jonas Grabber
• Created: 24/Apr/17 13:37
• Updated: 03/Jun/22 16:35

Description

Hello,

the SDK documentation for both DataflowPipelineOptions and DataflowRunner "fail" to mention the ability to create template jobs in Google Dataflow.

Especially with the loss of the separate DataflowTemplateRunner this caused confusion amongst my working colleagues and other Beam users I talked to.

A short hit to the setTemplateLocation method would save a decent amount of time across a lot of developers, I reckon.

What's the procedure for these kind of (cosmetic) issues?