[FLINK-3050] Add custom Exception type to suppress job restarts

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Implemented
• Affects Version/s: 0.10.0
• Fix Version/s: 1.0.0
• Component/s: Runtime / Coordination
• Assignee: Ufuk Celebi
• Reporter: Ufuk Celebi
• Created: 19/Nov/15 13:54
• Updated: 11/Jan/16 15:33
• Resolved: 11/Jan/16 15:33

Description

In case of failures and configured execution retries, the job will be be restarted even in cases when the failure is not recoverable.

We can add a custom Exception type like UnrecoverableFailure in order to suppress restarts in certain cases. The execution graph restart logic can check the failure type on recovery and skip the restarting.

This Exception can be used both by the system and the user.