Nice, just saw that.

We are adding the definitions as a part of ttps://
github.com/apache/iceberg/pull/9695, we can help review the PRs listed here
and then update the OpenAPI spec accordingly.

-Jack

On Wed, Feb 14, 2024 at 4:12 PM Steven Wu <stevenz...@gmail.com> wrote:

> @Ryan, the JSON serialization is also used by Flink for checkpoint state.
> so it is not purely a REST API thing.
>
> @Jack, Ryan also had the same suggestion in the PR comment. I have updated
> the naming
>
> On Wed, Feb 14, 2024 at 4:08 PM Jack Ye <yezhao...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> > It would fail if the FileScanTask is some other implementation (like
>> StaticDataTask).
>> Actually we faced exactly the same issue, and we have an internal patch
>> to fix the parser for that. +1 for the proposal.
>>
>> For the type names, can we come up with a different name from "
>> base-file-task"? "base" is very Java abstract class specific. In fact,
>> the StaticDataTask is not really scanning a file anyway, maybe we should
>> just call these like file-scan-task, data-task, etc.?
>>
>> Best,
>> Jack Ye
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 14, 2024 at 4:01 PM Ryan Blue <b...@tabular.io> wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks, Steven! Looks like the right direction to add other task types
>>> with their own serialization.
>>>
>>> I hadn't realized that these were in the table spec and not just the
>>> REST spec. What do you think about keeping JSON serialization that isn't
>>> part of table metadata in the REST spec? I'm actually pretty happy with
>>> OpenAPI for defining our JSON structures, so I think this would be easier
>>> in the REST spec. I would also consider an OpenAPI extension to the table
>>> spec for JSON objects since it is pretty easy to work with and does a good
>>> job defining the metadata.
>>>
>>> Ryan
>>>
>>> On Wed, Feb 14, 2024 at 3:48 PM Steven Wu <stevenz...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> The first linked reference is the PR for spec update.
>>>>
>>>> [3] https://github.com/apache/iceberg/pull/9728
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Feb 14, 2024 at 3:36 PM Steven Wu <stevenz...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> We just ran out of time and didn't get a chance to discuss this in the
>>>>> community sync meeting today. Hence, I am raising the discussion here.
>>>>>
>>>>> We added JSON parsers for content file and file scan task a year ago
>>>>> [1]. Recently, I just realized the implementation only handles
>>>>> BaseFileScanTask. It would fail if the FileScanTask is some other
>>>>> implementation (like StaticDataTask).
>>>>>
>>>>> Eduard, Anton, and I have been discussing a solution in issue-9597
>>>>> [2]. We reached a consensus that we need to define a new `task-type` enum
>>>>> field to indicate the implementation class/type [3]. For backward
>>>>> compatibility, the lack of this new `task-type` field should be
>>>>> interpreted as `base-file-task`.
>>>>>
>>>>> Since this is a spec change, Anton suggested more visibility. Hence I
>>>>> am starting this discussion thread.
>>>>>
>>>>> [1] https://github.com/apache/iceberg/pull/6934
>>>>> [2] https://github.com/apache/iceberg/issues/9597
>>>>> [3] https://github.com/apache/iceberg/pull/9728
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Ryan Blue
>>> Tabular
>>>
>>

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