Github user twalthr commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/6201#discussion_r200045769
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flink-libraries/flink-table/src/main/scala/org/apache/flink/table/connector/TableConnectorFactory.scala
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@@ -16,21 +16,18 @@
* limitations under the License.
*/
-package org.apache.flink.table.sources
+package org.apache.flink.table.connector
import java.util
-/**
- * A factory to create a [[TableSource]]. This factory is used with
Java's Service Provider
- * Interfaces (SPI) for discovering. A factory is called with a set of
normalized properties that
- * describe the desired table source. The factory allows for matching to
the given set of
- * properties and creating a configured [[TableSource]] accordingly.
- *
- * Classes that implement this interface need to be added to the
- * "META_INF/services/org.apache.flink.table.sources.TableSourceFactory'
file of a JAR file in
- * the current classpath to be found.
- */
-trait TableSourceFactory[T] {
+trait TableConnectorFactory[T] {
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@suez1224 Actually, I liked `CREATE TABLE` because it is closer to SQL. The
reason why I proposed `TableFactory` was because the factory does much more
than just constructing a connector. It also performs schema validation, format
discovery and so on.
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