Github user fhueske commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/5240#discussion_r163005744
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flink-libraries/flink-table/src/main/scala/org/apache/flink/table/descriptors/JSON.scala
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+package org.apache.flink.table.descriptors
+
+import java.util
+
+import org.apache.flink.api.common.typeinfo.TypeInformation
+import org.apache.flink.table.api.TableSchema
+
+import scala.collection.mutable
+import scala.collection.JavaConverters._
+
+/**
+ * Encoding descriptor for JSON.
+ */
+class JSON extends EncodingDescriptor("json") {
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Should we add a method that defines the schema with a JSON Schema string?
We would need a parser, but have immediate support for nested schema.
Alternatively, we could use the nested schema parser of `TypeStringUtils`
but this would not be JSON Schema.
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