westonpace commented on code in PR #13722:
URL: https://github.com/apache/datafusion/pull/13722#discussion_r1883947827


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datafusion-examples/examples/remote_catalog.rs:
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+// Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+// Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+// or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+// distributed with this work for additional information
+// regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+// to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+// "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+// with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+//
+//   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+//
+// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+// software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+// "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+// KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+// specific language governing permissions and limitations
+// under the License.
+
+/// This example shows how to implement the DataFusion [`CatalogProvider`] API
+/// for catalogs that are remote (require network access) and/or offer only
+/// asynchronous APIs such as [Polaris], [Unity], and [Hive].
+///
+/// Integrating with this catalogs is a bit more complex than with local
+/// catalogs because calls like `ctx.sql("SELECT * FROM db.schm.tbl")` may need
+/// to perform remote network requests, but many Catalog APIs are synchronous.
+/// See the documentation on [`CatalogProvider`] for more details.
+///
+/// [`CatalogProvider`]: datafusion_catalog::CatalogProvider
+///
+/// [Polaris]: https://github.com/apache/polaris
+/// [Unity]: https://github.com/unitycatalog/unitycatalog
+/// [Hive]: https://hive.apache.org/
+use arrow::array::record_batch;
+use arrow_schema::{Field, Fields, Schema, SchemaRef};
+use async_trait::async_trait;
+use datafusion::catalog::{SchemaProvider, TableProvider};
+use datafusion::common::DataFusionError;
+use datafusion::common::Result;
+use datafusion::execution::SendableRecordBatchStream;
+use datafusion::physical_plan::memory::MemoryExec;
+use datafusion::physical_plan::stream::RecordBatchStreamAdapter;
+use datafusion::physical_plan::ExecutionPlan;
+use datafusion::prelude::{DataFrame, SessionContext};
+use datafusion_catalog::Session;
+use datafusion_common::{
+    assert_batches_eq, internal_datafusion_err, plan_err, TableReference,
+};
+use datafusion_expr::{Expr, TableType};
+use futures::TryStreamExt;
+use std::any::Any;
+use std::sync::{Arc, Mutex};
+
+#[tokio::main]
+async fn main() -> Result<()> {
+    // As always, we create a session context to interact with DataFusion
+    let ctx = SessionContext::new();
+
+    // Make a connection to the remote catalog, asynchronously, and configure 
it
+    let remote_catalog_interface = RemoteCatalogInterface::connect().await?;
+
+    // Register a SchemaProvider for tables in a schema named "remote_schema".
+    //
+    // This will let DataFusion query tables such as
+    // `datafusion.remote_schema.remote_table`
+    let remote_schema: Arc<dyn SchemaProvider> =
+        Arc::new(RemoteSchema::new(Arc::new(remote_catalog_interface)));
+    ctx.catalog("datafusion")
+        .ok_or_else(|| internal_datafusion_err!("default catalog was not 
installed"))?
+        .register_schema("remote_schema", Arc::clone(&remote_schema))?;
+
+    // Here is a query that selects data from a table in the remote catalog.
+    let sql = "SELECT * from remote_schema.remote_table";
+
+    // While the `SessionContext::sql` interface is async, but it does not

Review Comment:
   ```suggestion
       // The `SessionContext::sql` interface is async, but it does not
   ```



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datafusion-examples/examples/remote_catalog.rs:
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+// Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+// Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+// or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+// distributed with this work for additional information
+// regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+// to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+// "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+// with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+//
+//   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+//
+// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+// software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+// "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+// KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+// specific language governing permissions and limitations
+// under the License.
+
+/// This example shows how to implement the DataFusion [`CatalogProvider`] API
+/// for catalogs that are remote (require network access) and/or offer only
+/// asynchronous APIs such as [Polaris], [Unity], and [Hive].
+///
+/// Integrating with this catalogs is a bit more complex than with local
+/// catalogs because calls like `ctx.sql("SELECT * FROM db.schm.tbl")` may need
+/// to perform remote network requests, but many Catalog APIs are synchronous.
+/// See the documentation on [`CatalogProvider`] for more details.
+///
+/// [`CatalogProvider`]: datafusion_catalog::CatalogProvider
+///
+/// [Polaris]: https://github.com/apache/polaris
+/// [Unity]: https://github.com/unitycatalog/unitycatalog
+/// [Hive]: https://hive.apache.org/
+use arrow::array::record_batch;
+use arrow_schema::{Field, Fields, Schema, SchemaRef};
+use async_trait::async_trait;
+use datafusion::catalog::{SchemaProvider, TableProvider};
+use datafusion::common::DataFusionError;
+use datafusion::common::Result;
+use datafusion::execution::SendableRecordBatchStream;
+use datafusion::physical_plan::memory::MemoryExec;
+use datafusion::physical_plan::stream::RecordBatchStreamAdapter;
+use datafusion::physical_plan::ExecutionPlan;
+use datafusion::prelude::{DataFrame, SessionContext};
+use datafusion_catalog::Session;
+use datafusion_common::{
+    assert_batches_eq, internal_datafusion_err, plan_err, TableReference,
+};
+use datafusion_expr::{Expr, TableType};
+use futures::TryStreamExt;
+use std::any::Any;
+use std::sync::{Arc, Mutex};
+
+#[tokio::main]
+async fn main() -> Result<()> {
+    // As always, we create a session context to interact with DataFusion
+    let ctx = SessionContext::new();
+
+    // Make a connection to the remote catalog, asynchronously, and configure 
it
+    let remote_catalog_interface = RemoteCatalogInterface::connect().await?;
+
+    // Register a SchemaProvider for tables in a schema named "remote_schema".
+    //
+    // This will let DataFusion query tables such as
+    // `datafusion.remote_schema.remote_table`
+    let remote_schema: Arc<dyn SchemaProvider> =
+        Arc::new(RemoteSchema::new(Arc::new(remote_catalog_interface)));
+    ctx.catalog("datafusion")
+        .ok_or_else(|| internal_datafusion_err!("default catalog was not 
installed"))?
+        .register_schema("remote_schema", Arc::clone(&remote_schema))?;
+
+    // Here is a query that selects data from a table in the remote catalog.
+    let sql = "SELECT * from remote_schema.remote_table";
+
+    // While the `SessionContext::sql` interface is async, but it does not
+    // support asynchronous access to catalogs, so the following query errors.
+    let results = ctx.sql(sql).await;
+    assert_eq!(
+        results.unwrap_err().to_string(),
+        "Error during planning: table 'datafusion.remote_schema.remote_table' 
not found"
+    );
+
+    // Instead, to use a remote catalog, we must use lower level APIs on
+    // SessionState (what `SessionContext::sql` does internally).
+    let state = ctx.state();
+
+    // First, parse the SQL (but don't plan it / resolve any table references)
+    let dialect = state.config().options().sql_parser.dialect.as_str();
+    let statement = state.sql_to_statement(sql, dialect)?;
+
+    // Find all `TableReferences` in the parsed queries. These correspond to 
the
+    // tables referred to by the query (in this case
+    // `remote_schema.remote_table`)
+    let references = state.resolve_table_references(&statement)?;
+
+    // Call `load_tables` to load information from the remote catalog for each
+    // of the referenced tables. Best practice is to fetch the the information
+    // for all tables required by the query once (rather than one per table) to
+    // minimize network overhead
+    let table_names = references.iter().filter_map(|r| {
+        if refers_to_schema("datafusion", "remote_schema", r) {
+            Some(r.table())
+        } else {
+            None
+        }
+    });
+    remote_schema
+        .as_any()
+        .downcast_ref::<RemoteSchema>()
+        .expect("correct types")
+        .load_tables(table_names)
+        .await?;
+
+    // Now continue planing the query after having fetched the remote table and
+    // it can run as normal
+    let plan = state.statement_to_plan(statement).await?;
+    let results = DataFrame::new(state, plan).collect().await?;
+    assert_batches_eq!(
+        [
+            "+----+-------+",
+            "| id | name  |",
+            "+----+-------+",
+            "| 1  | alpha |",
+            "| 2  | beta  |",
+            "| 3  | gamma |",
+            "+----+-------+",
+        ],
+        &results
+    );
+
+    Ok(())
+}
+
+/// This is an example of an API that interacts with a remote catalog.
+///
+/// Specifically, its APIs are all `async` and thus can not be used by
+/// [`SchemaProvider`] or [`TableProvider`] directly.
+#[derive(Debug)]
+struct RemoteCatalogInterface {}
+
+impl RemoteCatalogInterface {
+    /// Establish a connection to the remote catalog
+    pub async fn connect() -> Result<Self> {
+        // In a real implementation this method might connect to a remote
+        // catalog, validate credentials, cache basic information, etc
+        Ok(Self {})
+    }
+
+    /// Fetches information for a specific table
+    pub async fn table_info(&self, name: &str) -> Result<SchemaRef> {
+        if name != "remote_table" {
+            return plan_err!("Remote table not found: {}", name);
+        }
+
+        // In this example, we'll model a remote table with columns "id" and
+        // "name"
+        //
+        // A real remote catalog would  make a network call to fetch this
+        // information from a remote source.
+        let schema = Schema::new(Fields::from(vec![
+            Field::new("id", arrow::datatypes::DataType::Int32, false),
+            Field::new("name", arrow::datatypes::DataType::Utf8, false),
+        ]));
+        Ok(Arc::new(schema))
+    }
+
+    /// Fetches data for a table from a remote data source
+    pub async fn read_data(&self, name: &str) -> 
Result<SendableRecordBatchStream> {
+        if name != "remote_table" {
+            return plan_err!("Remote table not found: {}", name);
+        }
+
+        // In a real remote catalog this call would likely perform network IO 
to
+        // open and begin reading from a remote datasource, prefetching
+        // information, etc.
+        //
+        // In this example we are just demonstrating how the API works so 
simply
+        // return back some static data as a stream.
+        let batch = record_batch!(
+            ("id", Int32, [1, 2, 3]),
+            ("name", Utf8, ["alpha", "beta", "gamma"])
+        )
+        .unwrap();
+        let schema = batch.schema();
+
+        let stream = futures::stream::iter([Ok(batch)]);
+        Ok(Box::pin(RecordBatchStreamAdapter::new(schema, stream)))
+    }
+}
+
+/// Implements the DataFusion Catalog API interface for tables
+/// stored in a remote catalog.
+#[derive(Debug)]
+struct RemoteSchema {
+    /// Connection with the remote catalog
+    remote_catalog_interface: Arc<RemoteCatalogInterface>,
+    /// Local cache of tables that have been preloaded from the remote
+    /// catalog
+    tables: Mutex<Vec<Arc<dyn TableProvider>>>,

Review Comment:
   It's just an example so it doesn't matter but I'm curious why `Vec` and not 
`HashMap` which would be my default thought.



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datafusion/catalog/src/catalog.rs:
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@@ -72,15 +76,14 @@ use datafusion_common::Result;
 /// batch access to the remote catalog to retrieve multiple schemas and tables
 /// in a single network call.
 ///
-/// Note that [`SchemaProvider::table`] is an `async` function in order to
+/// Note that [`SchemaProvider::table`] **is** an `async` function in order to
 /// simplify implementing simple [`SchemaProvider`]s. For many table formats it
 /// is easy to list all available tables but there is additional non trivial
 /// access required to read table details (e.g. statistics).
 ///
 /// The pattern that DataFusion itself uses to plan SQL queries is to walk over
-/// the query to find all table references,
-/// performing required remote catalog in parallel, and then plans the query
-/// using that snapshot.
+/// the query to find all table references, performing required remote catalog
+/// in parallel, and then plans the query using that snapshot.

Review Comment:
   ```suggestion
   /// lookups in parallel, storing the results in a cached snapshot, and then 
plans
   /// the query using that snapshot.
   ```



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