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ASF GitHub Bot commented on FLINK-8240:
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Github user fhueske commented on a diff in the pull request:

    https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/5240#discussion_r162947784
  
    --- Diff: 
flink-libraries/flink-table/src/main/scala/org/apache/flink/table/api/StreamTableEnvironment.scala
 ---
    @@ -125,6 +129,16 @@ abstract class StreamTableEnvironment(
         }
       }
     
    +  /**
    +    * Creates a table from a descriptor that describes the resulting table 
schema, the source
    +    * connector, the source encoding, and other properties.
    +    *
    +    * @param schema schema descriptor describing the table to create
    +    */
    +  def createTable(schema: Schema): StreamTableSourceDescriptor = {
    --- End diff --
    
    See comment on `BatchTableEnvironment`


> Create unified interfaces to configure and instatiate TableSources
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: FLINK-8240
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-8240
>             Project: Flink
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: Table API & SQL
>            Reporter: Timo Walther
>            Assignee: Timo Walther
>            Priority: Major
>
> At the moment every table source has different ways for configuration and 
> instantiation. Some table source are tailored to a specific encoding (e.g., 
> {{KafkaAvroTableSource}}, {{KafkaJsonTableSource}}) or only support one 
> encoding for reading (e.g., {{CsvTableSource}}). Each of them might implement 
> a builder or support table source converters for external catalogs.
> The table sources should have a unified interface for discovery, defining 
> common properties, and instantiation. The {{TableSourceConverters}} provide a 
> similar functionality but use an external catalog. We might generialize this 
> interface.
> In general a table source declaration depends on the following parts:
> {code}
> - Source
>   - Type (e.g. Kafka, Custom)
>   - Properties (e.g. topic, connection info)
> - Encoding
>   - Type (e.g. Avro, JSON, CSV)
>   - Schema (e.g. Avro class, JSON field names/types)
> - Rowtime descriptor/Proctime
>   - Watermark strategy and Watermark properties
>   - Time attribute info
> - Bucketization
> {code}
> This issue needs a design document before implementation. Any discussion is 
> very welcome.



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