Github user fhueske commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/5240#discussion_r162994182
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flink-libraries/flink-table/src/main/scala/org/apache/flink/table/descriptors/ConnectorDescriptor.scala
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+package org.apache.flink.table.descriptors
+
+import org.apache.flink.table.descriptors.DescriptorUtils.connector
+
+/**
+ * Describes a connector to an other system.
+ *
+ * @param tpe string identifier for the connector
+ */
+abstract class ConnectorDescriptor(private val tpe: String) extends
Descriptor {
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Should a `ConnectorDescriptor` know whether it requires an encoding? For
example a file descriptor needs an encoding but a JDBC connector doesn't.
This property would then be used to validate the configuration
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