aokolnychyi commented on code in PR #4503:
URL: https://github.com/apache/iceberg/pull/4503#discussion_r846544116
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api/src/main/java/org/apache/iceberg/actions/DeleteOrphanFiles.java:
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@@ -80,6 +80,19 @@
*/
DeleteOrphanFiles executeDeleteWith(ExecutorService executorService);
+ /**
+ * Passes a table which contains the list of actual files in the table. This
skips the directory listing - any
+ * files in the actualFilesTable provided which are not found in table
metadata will be deleted. Not compatible
+ * with `location` or `older_than` arguments - this assumes that the
provided table of actual files has been
+ * filtered down to the table’s location and only includes files older than
a reasonable retention interval.
+ *
+ * @param tableName the table containing the actual files dataset. Should
have a single `file_path` string column
+ * @return this for method chaining
+ */
+ default DeleteOrphanFiles actualFilesTable(String tableName) {
Review Comment:
I guess the problem is that the Action API is engine agnostic so we cannot
refer to `Dataset`. We considered offering engine-specific actions at some
point but that idea was discarded as it would overcomplicate everything.
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