[FLINK-27919] Add FLIP-27-based Data Generator Source

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.17.0
• Component/s: Connectors / Common
• Labels: pull-request-available
• Assignee: Alexander Fedulov
• Reporter: Alexander Fedulov
• Created: 06/Jun/22 12:15
• Updated: 14/Dec/23 15:15
• Resolved: 23/Nov/22 15:33

Description

It is frequently required to generate arbitrary events at the "mock" source. Such requirement arises both for Flink users, in the scope of demo/PoC projects, and for Flink developers when writing tests. The go-to solution for these purposes so far was implementing data generators as SourceFunctions. Since SourceFunction is superseded by FLIP-27 Source API and is due to be deprecated, it is required to provide users with a convenient alternative based on the new API.

 

Issue Links

• relates to: FLINK-31167 Verify that no exclusions were erroneously added to the japicmp plugin
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #20757