Github user mjsax commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/750#discussion_r38195523 --- 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 -- Hmmm... `task.stopExecution()` has the call to `userfunction.cancel()` nested inside. If there is an exception there it can hit us here... So catching `Throwable` an send back the result using `StringUtils.stringifyException` might just be fine.
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