twalthr commented on a change in pull request #8360: 
[FLINK-12393][table-common] Add the user-facing classes of the new type system
URL: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/8360#discussion_r282381642
 
 

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flink-table/flink-table-common/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/table/api/DataTypes.java
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+
+package org.apache.flink.table.api;
+
+import org.apache.flink.annotation.PublicEvolving;
+import org.apache.flink.api.common.ExecutionConfig;
+import org.apache.flink.api.common.typeinfo.TypeInformation;
+import org.apache.flink.api.common.typeutils.TypeSerializer;
+import org.apache.flink.table.types.DataType;
+import org.apache.flink.table.types.logical.AnyType;
+import org.apache.flink.table.types.logical.ArrayType;
+import org.apache.flink.table.types.logical.BigIntType;
+import org.apache.flink.table.types.logical.BinaryType;
+import org.apache.flink.table.types.logical.BooleanType;
+import org.apache.flink.table.types.logical.CharType;
+import org.apache.flink.table.types.logical.DateType;
+import org.apache.flink.table.types.logical.DayTimeIntervalType;
+import 
org.apache.flink.table.types.logical.DayTimeIntervalType.DayTimeResolution;
+import org.apache.flink.table.types.logical.DecimalType;
+import org.apache.flink.table.types.logical.DoubleType;
+import org.apache.flink.table.types.logical.FloatType;
+import org.apache.flink.table.types.logical.IntType;
+import org.apache.flink.table.types.logical.LocalZonedTimestampType;
+import org.apache.flink.table.types.logical.LogicalType;
+import org.apache.flink.table.types.logical.MapType;
+import org.apache.flink.table.types.logical.MultisetType;
+import org.apache.flink.table.types.logical.NullType;
+import org.apache.flink.table.types.logical.RowType;
+import org.apache.flink.table.types.logical.SmallIntType;
+import org.apache.flink.table.types.logical.TimeType;
+import org.apache.flink.table.types.logical.TimestampType;
+import org.apache.flink.table.types.logical.TinyIntType;
+import org.apache.flink.table.types.logical.TypeInformationAnyType;
+import org.apache.flink.table.types.logical.VarBinaryType;
+import org.apache.flink.table.types.logical.VarCharType;
+import org.apache.flink.table.types.logical.YearMonthIntervalType;
+import 
org.apache.flink.table.types.logical.YearMonthIntervalType.YearMonthResolution;
+import org.apache.flink.table.types.logical.ZonedTimestampType;
+import org.apache.flink.util.Preconditions;
+
+import javax.annotation.Nullable;
+
+import java.util.Arrays;
+import java.util.HashMap;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Map;
+import java.util.Optional;
+import java.util.function.BiFunction;
+import java.util.stream.Collectors;
+import java.util.stream.Stream;
+
+/**
+ * A {@link DataType} can be used to declare input and/or output types of 
operations. This class
+ * enumerates all supported data types of the Table & SQL API.
+ */
+@PublicEvolving
+public final class DataTypes {
+
+       // we use SQL-like naming for data types and avoid Java keyword clashes
+       // CHECKSTYLE.OFF: MethodName
+
+       /**
+        * Data type of a fixed-length character string {@code CHAR(n)} where 
{@code n} is the number
+        * of code points. {@code n} must have a value between 1 and 255 (both 
inclusive).
+        *
+        * @see CharType
+        */
+       public static DataType.AtomicDataType CHAR(int n) {
 
 Review comment:
   Good point. First I was a bit skeptical because it would require casting in 
util methods but we can also provide a visitor.

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