+1 Thank you Fabian! On Fri, Aug 7, 2020 at 6:58 AM Fabian Paul <fabianp...@data-artisans.com> wrote:
> Hi all, > > Due to recent changes in the shutdown mechanism of Flink [1] it is not > conveniently possible anymore to suspend a job running on a jobcluster > with a savepoint and retrieve the savepoint location via the Flink API > programmatically. > > With the introduced changes the rest endpoint shutdowns immediately > and rejects new request which makes the information inaccessible. > > Before the changes it was possible to stop the job and query the savepoint > info endpoint until the location was shown. > Admittedly, this was never a safe solution because it expected that the > rest endpoint stays alive long enough. > > I would like to see what the community thinks about this and whether it is > worth to implement a different solution to retrieve those information. > > Best, > Fabian > [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-18663 >