[FLINK-26072][Connectors][NiFi] Mark NiFi Source and Sink as deprecated

[MartijnVisser]

What is the purpose of the change

• Mark NiFi connector as deprecated so they can be removed in the next Flink release

Brief change log

• Added @Deprecated annotation to both NiFiSource and NiFiSink

Verifying this change

This change is a trivial rework / code cleanup without any test coverage.

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• Dependencies (does it add or upgrade a dependency): no
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• Anything that affects deployment or recovery: JobManager (and its components), Checkpointing, Kubernetes/Yarn, ZooKeeper: no
• The S3 file system connector: no

Documentation

• Does this pull request introduce a new feature? no
• If yes, how is the feature documented? not applicable

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[zentol]

They should also be marked as deprecate in the documentation.

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[MartijnVisser]

They should also be marked as deprecate in the documentation.

Thanks, I've added a deprecation warning to the docs.