Sounds good, Max, let's to this in one fix. We can maintain a counter in the ExecutionEnvironment that tracks how many executions have happened. In case of no prior execution, simply warn that no sinks are defined. In case a prior execution happened, point out that nothing new is pending execution.
On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 2:04 PM, Maximilian Michels <m...@apache.org> wrote: > I agree, print should print on the client. However, let's introduce some > big hint in the error message in case of a second execute() that this error > may arise from a previous execution. > > Instead of "No sinks defined", let's print "The Flink job didn't contain > any sinks. This may be because the sinks were already executed. If you > executed the print() method on a DataSet before, the job would have already > been executed. In this case, remove the call of execute() until you have > defined further sinks". > > On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 1:24 PM, Fabian Hueske <fhue...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > +1 for the breaking change > > > > 2015-04-28 13:18 GMT+02:00 Ufuk Celebi <u...@apache.org>: > > > > > > > > On 28 Apr 2015, at 12:31, Stephan Ewen <se...@apache.org> wrote: > > > > > > > +1 for the breaking change > > > > > > > > Let's not to this any more than necessary, bu this is a good case... > > > > > > +1 > > > > > >