[FLINK-22209] Make StreamTask#triggerCheckpointAsync return void

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Not a Priority
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Component/s: Runtime / Task
• Labels: auto-deprioritized-major
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Dawid Wysakowicz
• Created: 12/Apr/21 08:47
• Updated: 23/Mar/23 09:55

Description

The return value of StreamTask#triggerCheckpointAsync is ignored in production code. We should remove it to decrease chances for confustion.

We must make sure we do not lose test coverage with it. A lot of tests depend on that return value.