Status
Current state: "Under Discussion"
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Please keep the discussion on the mailing list rather than commenting on the wiki (wiki discussions get unwieldy fast).
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- make it visible whether a schema is resolved or unresolved and when the resolution happens
- offer a unified API for FLIP-129, FLIP-136, and catalogs
- allow arbitrary data types and expressions in the schema for watermark spec or columns
- have access to other catalogs for declaring a data type or expression via CatalogManager
- cleaned up TableSchema
- remain backwards compatible in the persisted properties and API
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It is saver and more user-friendly to build up a separate stack with better class hierarchy in correct package.
1) Reuse `table.api.TableColumn`, `table.api.WatermarkSpec`, `table.api.constraints.UniqueConstraint` but move them to `table.catalog`.
2) Introduce two Schema classes `table.api.Schema` for FLIP-129/FLIP-136 and `table.catalog.ResolvedSchema`.
3) Let `table.catalog.ResolvedSchema` implement most methods of `TableSchema` and resolve it with the help of a schema resolver.
4) Let `TableSchema` extend from `ResolvedSchema`.
5) Update API to properly split into `Schema` and `ResolvedSchema`. `Schema` will be returned by `CatalogBaseTable` such that expressions and data types can reference objects from other catalogs as well. `ResolvedSchema` will be returned by `QueryOperation`.
7) `TableColumn` and `WatermarkSpec` will be gradually reworked to remove the hybrid resolved/unresolved properties in members.
6) `DynamicTableFactory` will provide the resolved physical row data type and constraints as dedicated methods to avoid confusion which methods to call on `TableSchema.toRowDataType` or `TableSchema.toPhysicalRowDataType`.
We aim to let `table.api.TableSchema.Builder` untouched for backwards compatibility. However, implementations that use the rather new `add(TableColumn)` would need an update due to relocation and gradual refactorings.