[FLINK-3240] Remove or document DataStream(.global|.forward)

• Type: Bug
• Status: Open
• Priority: Not a Priority
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Component/s: API / DataStream
• Labels: auto-deprioritized-major auto-deprioritized-minor
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Robert Metzger
• Created: 15/Jan/16 09:15
• Updated: 09/Feb/22 10:42

Description

It seems that DataStream.global() and DataStream.forward() are not documented.
From the JavaDocs, I don't really get why we need them.
For DataStream.global(), users can just set the parallelism of the following operator to p=1.
Forward is the default behavior anyways.