I've filed a JIRA to update the documentation: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-2092
On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 11:08 AM, Stephan Ewen <se...@apache.org> wrote: > Hi all! > > Me merged a patch yesterday that changed the API behavior of the > "DataSet.print()" function. > > "print()" now prints to stdout on the client process, rather than the > TaskManager process, as before. This is much nicer for debugging and > exploring data sets. > > One implication of this is that print() is now an eager method ( like > collect() or count() ). That means that calling "print()" immediately > triggers the execution, and no "env.execute()" is required any more. > > Greetings, > Stephan > >