Github user StephanEwen commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/1313#issuecomment-152943948
This goes a bit against the idea of REST. If you "GET" a certain URL, it
should not affect the state of the system you query.
If we want to make that action part of the REST API, we should probably add
a "DELETE" action for the URL "jobs/<jobid>".
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