[FLINK-19457] Port NumberSequenceSource to FLIP-27 source interface

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.12.0
• Component/s: API / Core
• Labels: pull-request-available
• Assignee: Stephan Ewen
• Reporter: Stephan Ewen
• Created: 29/Sep/20 16:29
• Updated: 19/Feb/21 07:33
• Resolved: 02/Oct/20 13:07

Description

Both DataStream and DataSet APIs have a source generating a sequence of numbers.
This is useful for debugging and testing.

We should port this source to the FLIP-27 interface, to support testing programs with the new source API.

Issue Links

• supercedes: FLINK-6215 Make the StatefulSequenceSource scalable.
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #13512