rahil-c commented on code in PR #704:
URL: https://github.com/apache/incubator-xtable/pull/704#discussion_r2076766407


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xtable-service/src/main/java/org/apache/xtable/service/ConversionResource.java:
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+ 
+package org.apache.xtable.service;
+
+import org.apache.xtable.service.models.ConvertTableRequest;
+import org.apache.xtable.service.models.ConvertTableResponse;
+
+import io.smallrye.common.annotation.Blocking;
+import jakarta.inject.Inject;
+import jakarta.ws.rs.Consumes;
+import jakarta.ws.rs.POST;
+import jakarta.ws.rs.Path;
+import jakarta.ws.rs.Produces;
+import jakarta.ws.rs.core.MediaType;
+
+@Path("/v1/conversion")
+@Produces(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON)
+@Consumes(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON)
+public class ConversionResource {
+
+  @Inject ConversionService conversionService;
+
+  @POST
+  @Path("/table")
+  @Blocking

Review Comment:
   For Quarkus, I am bringing one of its rest dependencies know as 
rest-easy-reactive: 
https://quarkus.io/guides/rest#execution-model-blocking-non-blocking
   ```
   Quarkus REST is implemented using two main thread types:
   
   Event-loop threads: which are responsible, among other things, for reading 
bytes from the HTTP request and writing bytes back to the HTTP response
   
   Worker threads: they are pooled and can be used to offload long-running 
operations
   ```
   
   In general the endpoints are ran on these event loop threads to handle the 
incoming requests, however these are meant for lightweight operations, if an 
operation is going to do something more intensive that will take longer time to 
handle then the recommendation is to use `@Blocking` which will spin the 
operation on its own worker thread.
   
   
   https://quarkus.io/blog/resteasy-reactive-faq/
   ```
   Although RESTEasy Reactive was built from the ground up to do non-blocking 
IO and serve requests from the event loop threads (thus avoiding the needless 
usage of worker pool threads) it can effortlessly work with blocking IO and any 
piece of code that provides a blocking API (such as Hibernate) without blocking 
the event loop.
   
   The only thing you have to do is add @Blocking on your endpoint method or 
class. That’s it! If you use @Blocking you are back to the regular dispatching 
mechanism: a worker thread is used to execute your method.
   Although the absolute highest throughput is achieved when an endpoint method 
is non-blocking (that is the HTTP request is served completely from the event 
loop thread), great performance can nonetheless be achieved even when @Blocking 
is used.
   ```
   
   Since this endpoint is essentially calling conversion controller `sync` and 
reading and writing to cloud storage in my mind it made sense for annotate with 
`@Blocking`, (note this should spawn a worked thread to handle this converison, 
but still allow other network requests to be served and not blocked, i can do a 
manual test to confirm this as well).



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