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ASF GitHub Bot commented on FLINK-8558: --------------------------------------- Github user pnowojski commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/6323#discussion_r202275530 --- Diff: flink-libraries/flink-table/src/main/scala/org/apache/flink/table/factories/TableFactory.scala --- @@ -21,7 +21,14 @@ package org.apache.flink.table.factories import java.util /** - * Common trait for all properties-based discoverable table factories. + * A factory to create different table-related instances from string-based properties. This + * factory is used with Java's Service Provider Interfaces (SPI) for discovering. A factory is + * called with a set of normalized properties that describe the desired format. The factory allows --- End diff -- isn't this comment a bit misleading? > that describe the desired format. > Add unified format interfaces and format discovery > -------------------------------------------------- > > Key: FLINK-8558 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-8558 > Project: Flink > Issue Type: New Feature > Components: Streaming Connectors > Reporter: Timo Walther > Assignee: Timo Walther > Priority: Major > Labels: pull-request-available > > In the last release, we introduced a new module {{flink-formats}}. Currently > only {{flink-avro}} is located there but we will add more formats such as > {{flink-json}}, {{flink-protobuf}}, and so on. For better separation of > concerns we want decouple connectors from formats: e.g., remove > {{KafkaAvroTableSource}} and {{KafkaJsonTableSource}}. > A newly introduced {{FormatFactory}} will use Java service loaders to > discovery available formats in the classpath (similar to how file systems are > discovered now). A {{Format}} will provide a method for converting {{byte[]}} > to target record type. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v7.6.3#76005)