JingsongLi commented on a change in pull request #1293: URL: https://github.com/apache/iceberg/pull/1293#discussion_r470426278
########## File path: flink/src/main/java/org/apache/iceberg/flink/CatalogLoader.java ########## @@ -0,0 +1,45 @@ +/* + * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one + * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file + * distributed with this work for additional information + * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file + * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the + * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance + * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at + * + * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 + * + * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, + * software distributed under the License is distributed on an + * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY + * KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the + * specific language governing permissions and limitations + * under the License. + */ + +package org.apache.iceberg.flink; + +import java.io.Serializable; +import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration; +import org.apache.iceberg.Table; +import org.apache.iceberg.catalog.Catalog; +import org.apache.iceberg.hadoop.HadoopCatalog; +import org.apache.iceberg.hive.HiveCatalog; + +/** + * Serializable loader to load an Iceberg {@link Catalog}. + * Flink needs to get {@link Table} objects in the cluster (for example, to get splits), not just on the client side. + * So we need an Iceberg catalog loader to get the {@link Catalog} and get the {@link Table} object. + */ +public interface CatalogLoader extends Serializable { Review comment: Maybe not in hive but somewhere in Iceberg modules, I don't know if any other modules want to use `CatalogLoader`. We can discuss it in #1332 ---------------------------------------------------------------- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
