Hi Phillip, Thanks for starting this discussion!
>From my POV the REST API change is backward-compatible and a nice enhancement to Polaris. I posted some technical review comments in GH. It would be nice to get additional reviews from people more familiar with the External Catalogs feature. Cheers, Dmitri. On Wed, Feb 11, 2026 at 6:12 AM Phillip Henry <[email protected]> wrote: > I've added a REST API class (GcpAuthenticationParameters) in an attempt to > address #3451 <https://github.com/apache/polaris/issues/3451> - that is, > allowing users to create external catalogs that use the GoogleAuthManager > in the Iceberg codebase. > > I've put together this pull request > <https://github.com/apache/polaris/pull/3729> that hopefully implements > this. Other than adding an extra enum element to AuthenticationParameters, > there are no changes to existing classes. > > Dmitri Bourlatchkov has told me this necessitates a discussion in the > mailing lists and asked me to kick one off. So can I please ask for > opinions? > > Thanks, > > Phillip >
