amogh-jahagirdar commented on code in PR #4428:
URL: https://github.com/apache/iceberg/pull/4428#discussion_r885895391
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api/src/main/java/org/apache/iceberg/Table.java:
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@@ -297,4 +297,25 @@ default AppendFiles newFastAppend() {
* Returns a {@link LocationProvider} to provide locations for new data
files.
*/
LocationProvider locationProvider();
+
+ /**
+ * Returns the current refs for the table
+ *
+ * @return the current refs for the table
+ */
+ Map<String, SnapshotRef> refs();
Review Comment:
That's one way to go, I've been thinking it would actually be simpler if
when parsing the metadata, if a main branch does not exist, set it to the
current snapshot. That way a lot of the API logic can rely on this assumption
that main exists and we don't need a lot of special code for the case where the
new Iceberg library is reading an older metadata file where refs (and thus
main) may not exist.
This PR would be blocked on a PR for doing that so I will raise that.
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