rdblue commented on a change in pull request #2465:
URL: https://github.com/apache/iceberg/pull/2465#discussion_r615317012



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File path: core/src/main/java/org/apache/iceberg/SchemaUpdate.java
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@@ -317,6 +333,38 @@ public UpdateSchema unionByNameWith(Schema newSchema) {
     return this;
   }
 
+  @Override
+  public UpdateSchema addIdentifierField(String name) {
+    Types.NestedField field = schema.findField(name);
+    if (field == null) {
+      field = adds.get(TABLE_ROOT_ID).stream()
+          .filter(f -> f.name().equals(name))
+          .findAny().orElse(null);
+    }
+
+    Preconditions.checkArgument(field != null,
+        "Cannot find column of the given name in existing or newly added 
columns: %s", name);
+    Preconditions.checkArgument(field.isRequired(),
+        "Cannot add column %s as an identifier field because it is not a 
required field", name);
+    Preconditions.checkArgument(field.type().isPrimitiveType(),
+        "Cannot add column %s as an identifier field because it is not a 
primitive field", name);
+    Preconditions.checkArgument(!identifierFieldNames.contains(name),
+        "Cannot add column %s as an identifier field because it already is", 
name);
+    identifierFieldNames.add(name);

Review comment:
       I think this should also check that the column isn't nested within a map 
or list because those contain repeated keys, values, or elements. Anything 
within a repeated field can't be part of an identifier because there is more 
than one.




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