Just found a workaround. I downloaded kafka_2.10-0.8.2.1.jar and flink-connector-kafka-0.9.0.jar, then put them into $FLINK_HOME/lib/. Now the runtime error is gone. But this is just a workaound. I believe there is a better solution.
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