autophagy opened a new pull request, #26247: URL: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/26247
## What is the purpose of the change Currently, the Java APIs use annotations like `@PublicEvolving` and `@Experimental` to clearly indicate the stability status of API components. This is super helpful for understanding which parts of the API are stable for production use and which might change in future releases. The Python APIs lack this kind of explicit stability indication. This PR adds a set of decorators, corresponding to the annotations used in the Java APIs, that allow us to decorate classes/functions depending on their stability. These decorators also modify the underlying docstrings of the classes/functions that they decorate, so that the API stability is also reflected in the Sphinx documentation. Additionally, classes/functions that are deprecated output a warning at runtime on their invocation. The decorators function at both the class and function level. At the function level, they enrich the docstring of the function with an rst block that is rendered as a directive in the Sphinx documentation for that function. At the class level, they enrich the docstring of the class *and* also the docstrings of the classes public functions, so that, for example, the function documentation for a class annotated as `PublicEvolving()` also contains a directive block informing the user that the *class* the function is part of is marked as public evolving. The following decorators, and their resulting documentation changes: ### Decorators #### `Deprecated` `Deprecated` is distinct from the other decorators in that it takes a set of arguments, a mandatory `since` argument and an optional `detail` argument. These are output as a [Sphinx deprecated directive](https://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/master/usage/restructuredtext/directives.html#directive-deprecated), hence the mandatory `since` argument. Without `detail`: ```python @Deprecated(since="1.2.3") def MyClass: pass ``` Output in the Sphinx documentation: <img width="672" alt="Screenshot 2025-03-04 at 18 06 59" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/1bda13e1-f22c-4180-b925-ba42ac8cdfbc" /> With `detail`: ```python @Deprecated(since="1.2.3", detail="Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.") def MyClass: pass ``` Output in the Sphinx documentation: <img width="672" alt="Screenshot 2025-03-04 at 18 08 02" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/c47ca62e-0681-4a5b-8373-42aff2f0f84f" /> #### `Experimental` ```python @Experimental() def MyClass: pass ``` Output in the Sphinx documentation: <img width="672" alt="Screenshot 2025-03-04 at 18 06 50" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/80ebb7dc-8bcc-47e1-8048-3e340b93a2d7" /> #### `Internal` ```python @Internal() def MyClass: pass ``` Output in the Sphinx documentation: <img width="672" alt="Screenshot 2025-03-04 at 18 06 39" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/c1ee65f2-452a-4e3f-b774-ab58398bac8a" /> #### `PublicEvolving` ```python @PublicEvolving() def MyClass: pass ``` Output in the Sphinx documentation: <img width="672" alt="Screenshot 2025-03-04 at 18 06 33" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/a92cecd6-6006-41cb-a9e0-8f8156cf4952" /> ### Combining Decorators The decorators can also be combined. Multiple decorators can be applied to a class/function, and this will output the directives of all the decorators in the documentation for that class/function. Decorators on classes and then on functions in those classes will also combine, so that the decoration from the class is propagated down to the function and combined with the annotations on that function. So, for example, the following code: ```python @PublicEvolving() class ResolvedSchema(object): """ Schema of a table or view consisting of columns, constraints, and watermark specifications. This class is the result of resolving a :class:`~pyflink.table.Schema` into a final validated representation. - Data types and functions have been expanded to fully qualified identifiers. - Time attributes are represented in the column's data type. - :class:`pyflink.table.Expression` have been translated to :class:`pyflink.table.ResolvedExpression` This class should not be passed into a connector. It is therefore also not serializable. Instead, the :func:`to_physical_row_data_type` can be passed around where necessary. """ @Experimental() @Deprecated(since="1.2.3", detail="Use :func:`better_get_columns`") def get_columns(self) -> List[Column]: pass ``` Will produce the following on the documentation for the function `ResolvedSchema.get_columns`: <img width="709" alt="Screenshot 2025-03-04 at 17 56 30" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/a35bf02e-5cc9-42c0-8de1-f162752fd768" /> ## Brief change log - Added `PublicEvolving/Deprecated/Internal/Experimental` decorators for Pyflink APIs. - Aligned Python Table API object's API annotations with those on the Java side. ## Verifying this change This change added tests and can be verified as follows: - Building the documentation and observing the output on class/function autosummary docs. ## Does this pull request potentially affect one of the following parts: - Dependencies (does it add or upgrade a dependency): (no) - The public API, i.e., is any changed class annotated with `@Public(Evolving)`: (no) - The serializers: (no) - The runtime per-record code paths (performance sensitive): (no) - Anything that affects deployment or recovery: JobManager (and its components), Checkpointing, Kubernetes/Yarn, ZooKeeper: (no) - The S3 file system connector: (no) ## Documentation - Does this pull request introduce a new feature? 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