Github user StephanEwen commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/1027#issuecomment-131576936
I think you can make this non-API-breaking by simply throwing an
`IllegalStateException`, which is a `RuntimeException` and therefore needs no
part in the signature.
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