GitHub user xccui opened a pull request: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/5016
[FLINK-8069] [table] Support empty watermark strategy for TableSources ## What is the purpose of the change This PR enables an empty watermark strategy for `RowtimeAttributeDescriptor`. ## Brief change log - Add a default `null` value for the watermark strategy in `RowtimeAttributeDescriptor`. - Add a case in `StreamTableSourceScan` for empty watermark strategy. - Add a test case and update related docs. ## Verifying this change The change can be verified by the new added `testRowtimeTableSourceWithoutWMStrategy()`. ## Does this pull request potentially affect one of the following parts: - Dependencies (does it add or upgrade a dependency): (no) - The public API, i.e., is any changed class annotated with `@Public(Evolving)`: (no) - The serializers: (no) - The runtime per-record code paths (performance sensitive): (no) - Anything that affects deployment or recovery: JobManager (and its components), Checkpointing, Yarn/Mesos, ZooKeeper: (no) - The S3 file system connector: (no) ## Documentation - Does this pull request introduce a new feature? (yes) - If yes, how is the feature documented? (docs) You can merge this pull request into a Git repository by running: $ git pull https://github.com/xccui/flink FLINK-8069 Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/5016.patch To close this pull request, make a commit to your master/trunk branch with (at least) the following in the commit message: This closes #5016 ---- commit ba0fc2777f2c81c582032124d301f5ee301ae009 Author: Xingcan Cui <xingc...@gmail.com> Date: 2017-11-15T03:01:13Z [FLINK-8069] [table] Support empty watermark strategy for TableSources ---- ---