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ASF GitHub Bot commented on FLINK-8240:
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Github user fhueske commented on the issue:

    https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/5240
  
    Hi Timo,
    
    the PR looks good overall. I've made a few suggestion mostly about renaming 
methods or extending docs. I'd also propose to add a `supportedProperties()` 
method to `TableSourceFactory` that can be used to validate whether the factory 
supports all user-provided properties of a connector or format.
    
    What do you think?
    Fabian


> 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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