ryan-johnson-databricks commented on code in PR #40677:
URL: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/40677#discussion_r1161702693


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sql/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/execution/datasources/FileFormat.scala:
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@@ -165,6 +164,17 @@ trait FileFormat {
     }
   }
 
+  /**
+   * Create a file metadata struct column containing fields supported by the 
given file format.
+   */
+  def createFileMetadataCol(): AttributeReference = {

Review Comment:
   This isn't a new API. The method was already present in `object FileFormat`, 
and this PR intentionally makes it an instance method as part of the effort to 
eliminate the the central code bottleneck antipattern of dumping everything in 
the `FileFormat` companion object -- which currently makes it impossible for 
file formats to customize any aspect of metadata handling. Absent a specific 
reason to forbid file formats from customizing this behavior, I'd prefer to 
allow it, so we don't have to keep coming back and changing the code.



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