Which version of Flink are you using because I tested exactly this scenario
with the latest 1.2-SNAPSHOT on a local flink cluster and it worked both
ways (independent of which jar was specified by -C or provided as the user
code jar).
Can you maybe share the stack trace of the error. Then I could
Hi Till,
Sorry, I understand that this was confusing.
The JarWithMain contains a class called Launcher with main method that does
something like:
Class.getForName("classFromUserJar").newInstance().launch()
So it doesnt have any "static" dependency to the UserJar. JarWithMain has a
lot of API cla
Hi Gyula,
did I understand it correct that JarWithMain depends on UserJar because the
former will execute classes from the latter and UserJar depends on
JarWithMain because it contains classes depending on class from
JarWithMain? This sounds like a cyclic dependency to me.
The command line help f
Hi Scott,
Thanks, I am familiar with the ways you suggested. Unfortunately packaging
everything together is not really an option in our case, we specifically
want to avoid having to do this as many people will set up their own builds
and they will inevitable fail to include everything necessary wi
Hi Gyula,
I've typically added external library dependencies to my own application
JAR as shaded-dependencies. This ensures that all dependencies are included
with my application while being distributed to Flink Job Manager & Task
Manager instances.
Another approach is to place these external JAR
Hi,
I have been trying to use the -C flag to add external jars with user code
and I have observed some strange behaviour.
What I am trying to do is the following:
I have 2 jars, JarWithMain.jar contains the main class and UserJar.jar
contains some classes that the main method will eventually exec
