[FLINK-37969] Allow Transformation subgraphs to be merged during translation #26699
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What is the purpose of the change
Transformations are immutable by design and thus planner or DataStream API need to generate a subgraph in one pass. However, there are some use cases where we would attach some small subgraph to a larger subgraph before translation into a StreamGraph. For example, system views in SQL may actually refer to specific parts of the query where we would like to add a subgraph to a side-output.
This commit adds StubTransformation that is later connected to an existing Transformation by defining a predicate to find the upstream transformations to which to connect the downstream transformations.
Brief change log
Verifying this change
Added unit tests in StreamGraphGeneratorTest.
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