rdblue commented on code in PR #13445:
URL: https://github.com/apache/iceberg/pull/13445#discussion_r2271603731


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core/src/main/java/org/apache/iceberg/types/PruneUnknownTypes.java:
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+package org.apache.iceberg.types;
+
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.stream.IntStream;
+import org.apache.hadoop.util.Lists;
+import org.apache.iceberg.Schema;
+
+/** This is used to remove UnknownTypes that should not be persistent in files 
*/
+public class PruneUnknownTypes extends TypeUtil.SchemaVisitor<Type> {
+  private static final PruneUnknownTypes INSTANCE = new PruneUnknownTypes();
+
+  /**
+   * Prunes any UnknownType from a Schema
+   *
+   * @param schema a Schema
+   */
+  public static Schema convert(Schema schema) {
+    Types.StructType struct = (Types.StructType) TypeUtil.visit(schema, 
INSTANCE);
+    return new Schema(struct.fields(), schema.identifierFieldIds());
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Visits a schema and removes the UnknownTypes.
+   *
+   * <p>Used when creating a write schema, and skip over the UnknownTypes, 
since they are not
+   * materialized in the data files

Review Comment:
   Not materialized in Parquet data files, but [can be converted to `NULL` in 
Avro](https://github.com/apache/iceberg/blob/main/format/spec.md#appendix-a-format-specific-requirements),
 which solves some of the problems there.



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