[FLINK-18428] StreamExecutionEnvironment#continuousSource() method should be renamed to source()

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Blocker
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.11.0
• Component/s: API / DataStream
• Labels: pull-request-available
• Assignee: Jiangjie Qin
• Reporter: Jiangjie Qin
• Created: 24/Jun/20 12:32
• Updated: 24/Jun/20 18:49
• Resolved: 24/Jun/20 18:49

Description

The current code in master did not follow the [latest FLIP-27 discussion|https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r54287e9c9880916560bb97c38962db7b4d326056a7b23a9d0416e6a7%40%3Cdev.flink.apache.org%3E], where we should have a StreamExecutionEnvironment#source() instead of  StreamExecutionEnvironment#continuousSource(). The concern was that the latter would mislead the users to think that the execution is always in streaming mode while it actually depends on the boundedness of the source.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #12766