Hi,

To be honest, the decorator approach is nice to have, but I could live
without it.

What worries me the most right now is the design decision around
"after" events. That a "before" event could exist without the
corresponding "after" one, or even without the corresponding update to
the metastore, is of concern.

Thanks,
Alex


On Mon, Jun 23, 2025 at 10:35 PM Adnan Hemani
<adnan.hem...@snowflake.com.invalid> wrote:
>
> >
> > I'm not sure the pros and cons about these two concerns were discussed.
> > Those are general decisions that IMO require a bigger audience than a
> > single code-level comment in one PR.
>
>
> I understand where you're coming from. To keep things moving, I'm proposing
> a one-week time limit on this discussion—unless there’s still active
> engagement at that point. The goal is to avoid letting the conversation
> drag on and continue blocking the PR if no new perspectives are being
> shared beyond those who have already contributed. I’ll consider this time
> limit in effect unless there’s explicit and valid pushback.
>
>  I do also prefer delegation over adding "all concerns to a single
> > class". It simplifies testing and separates concerns, making
> > failure-handling much easier, prevents leaking event-specifics into the
> > actual implementation and also prevents new service methods/functions
> > from not being decorated.
>
>
> Got it, I think there are now two votes for this (you and Alex). In this
> case, I can start work on this and modify the PR in the upcoming days.
>
> Not having any error handling leads to unnecessary ambiguity. Nobody can
> > certainly reason about the cause why some "after event" is not there.
> > There are legit reasons for and against having that. But again, it's a
> > general and "far reaching" decision.
>
>
> I've considered this perspective as well, but I believe that Events are
> intentionally designed without error handling. If someone uses Events for a
> valid case where throwing errors is appropriate - like adding extra
> validation to an API call - introducing error handling could break that
> pattern. So the real question is: is there a compelling reason to change
> the current behavior and add error handling to Events? The responsibility
> to prove that this change is clearly beneficial lies with those proposing
> it.
>
> Best,
> Adnan Hemani
>
> On Mon, Jun 23, 2025 at 3:33 AM Robert Stupp <sn...@snazy.de> wrote:
>
> > I'm not sure the pros and cons about these two concerns were discussed.
> > Those are general decisions that IMO require a bigger audience than a
> > single code-level comment in one PR.
> >
> > I do also prefer delegation over adding "all concerns to a single
> > class". It simplifies testing and separates concerns, making
> > failure-handling much easier, prevents leaking event-specifics into the
> > actual implementation and also prevents new service methods/functions
> > from not being decorated.
> >
> > Not having any error handling leads to unnecessary ambiguity. Nobody can
> > certainly reason about the cause why some "after event" is not there.
> > There are legit reasons for and against having that. But again, it's a
> > general and "far reaching" decision.
> >
> >
> > On 21.06.25 00:13, Adnan Hemani wrote:
> > > Hi Robert,
> > >
> > > I’ve already responded to those concerns <
> > https://github.com/apache/polaris/pull/1904#discussion_r2153824586> on
> > the PR itself, prior to your comment asking for this email thread. Please
> > take a look and feel free to respond either on the PR or this email thread,
> > now that we’ve already gotten it going.
> > >
> > > To be clear, I’m not opposed to taking feedback on either of these
> > topics - but reiterating already responded-to threads with no new
> > information/opinions/suggestions does not help drive the discussion forward
> > IMO.
> > >
> > > Best,
> > > Adnan Hemani
> > >
> > >
> > >> On Jun 20, 2025, at 7:29 AM, Robert Stupp <sn...@snazy.de> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> Thanks for bringing this up.
> > >>
> > >> I referenced the concerns that were mentioned on the PR about
> > >> * the approach not using a `@Decorator`, mixing concerns.
> > >> * exception/failure handling.
> > >>
> > >> For me, these are important topics that need to be considered in the
> > PR. It would be good to respect those concerns before we start reviewing
> > this big-ish change, as there are possibly options to shrink it (immutables
> > as an option?) and also consider exception/failure handling.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> On 19.06.25 04:48, Adnan Hemani wrote:
> > >>> Hi all,
> > >>>
> > >>> As per the comment on GitHub PR #1904 <
> > https://www.google.com/url?q=https://github.com/apache/polaris/pull/1904&source=gmail-imap&ust=1751034561000000&usg=AOvVaw0kTwOl-IaXvgc8vVItGrHI>,
> > I am opening this mailing thread to discuss the PR implementation. This PR
> > is only adding instrumentation for additional events in
> > `PolarisServiceImpl.java`. There is no additional business logic as part of
> > this PR.
> > >>>
> > >>> There was one noted (and responded) remark about execution flow and
> > one remark regarding cosmetic changes to the code, which is awaiting follow
> > up by adutra@.
> > >>>
> > >>> I will let snazy@ take the floor from here as he requested this mail
> > thread without being specific on his concerns on the PR comment.
> > >>>
> > >>> Best,
> > >>> Adnan Hemani
> > >
> >

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