Hi all, I noticed that we generate a set of Python models <https://github.com/apache/iceberg/blob/main/open-api/rest-catalog-open-api.py> containing Request/Response objects for the REST Catalog.
PyIceberg has recreated many of these models <https://github.com/apache/iceberg-python/blob/main/pyiceberg/catalog/rest/__init__.py> albeit with less detail in many cases. I'd like to propose that we publish the rest-catalog-open-api.py <https://github.com/apache/iceberg/blob/main/open-api/rest-catalog-open-api.py> file as a Python package that PyIceberg can import. This would allow us to keep the REST Catalog models + the Python models in sync. It would also allow other Python packages to pick up the REST Catalog schema while staying in sync with any changes that we make to the REST Catalog. We could publish this new Python package out of the standard Iceberg repo. Preferably, we'd release it separately from the Java library so that Java + Python can develop concurrently. Any thoughts? Thanks! -- Alex Stephen
