Github user NicoK commented on the issue: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/4255 you're right - wasn't looking thoroughly enough (and only recently learned about `ExpectedException`). Additionally, I found out that this ignored exception was actually required to be thrown for some of these tests while others didn't even throw it. So with the newest changes (also rebased on top of the current `master`), the tests actually better reflect the intended behaviour.
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