[FLINK-10879] Align Flink clients on env.execute()

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Abandoned
• Affects Version/s: 1.6.2
• Component/s: Command Line Client
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Flavio Pompermaier
• Created: 14/Nov/18 11:44
• Updated: 12/Mar/20 14:33
• Resolved: 12/Mar/20 14:33

Description

Right now the REST APIs do not support any code after env.execute while the Flink API, CLI client or the code executed within the IDE do.

Both clients should behave in the same way (supporting env.execute() to return something and continue the code execution or not).

See the discussion on the DEV ML for more details: http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/flink-dev/201811.mbox/%3CCAELUF_DhjzL9FECvx040_GE3d85Ykb-HcGVCh0O4y9h-cThq7A%40mail.gmail.com%3E