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ASF GitHub Bot commented on FLINK-2111: --------------------------------------- Github user mjsax commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/750#discussion_r38193714 --- Diff: flink-runtime/src/main/scala/org/apache/flink/runtime/taskmanager/TaskManager.scala --- @@ -411,6 +411,23 @@ class TaskManager( log.debug(s"Cannot find task to fail for execution ${executionID})") } + // stops a task + case StopTask(executionID) => + val task = runningTasks.get(executionID) + if (task != null) { + try { + task.stopExecution() + sender ! new TaskOperationResult(executionID, true) + } catch { + case t: Throwable => + sender ! new TaskOperationResult(executionID, false, t.getMessage()) --- End diff -- I thought I need to send back a `TaskOperationResult` (which does not take only `String` as parameter for an error message). And `stopExecution` might throw an `UnsupportedOperationException` (which should not happen, if code is correct). Please give some more advice (I am not to much familiar with Akka) > Add "stop" signal to cleanly shutdown streaming jobs > ---------------------------------------------------- > > Key: FLINK-2111 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-2111 > Project: Flink > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: Distributed Runtime, JobManager, Local Runtime, > Streaming, TaskManager, Webfrontend > Reporter: Matthias J. Sax > Assignee: Matthias J. Sax > Priority: Minor > > Currently, streaming jobs can only be stopped using "cancel" command, what is > a "hard" stop with no clean shutdown. > The new introduced "stop" signal, will only affect streaming source tasks > such that the sources can stop emitting data and shutdown cleanly, resulting > in a clean shutdown of the whole streaming job. > This feature is a pre-requirment for > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-1929 -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)