bowenli86 commented on a change in pull request #8353: [FLINK-12233][hive] Support table related operations in HiveCatalog URL: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/8353#discussion_r282337775
########## File path: flink-connectors/flink-connector-hive/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/table/catalog/hive/HiveCatalogBase.java ########## @@ -89,6 +101,34 @@ private static IMetaStoreClient getMetastoreClient(HiveConf hiveConf) { } } + // ------ APIs ------ + + /** + * Validate input base table. + * + * @param catalogBaseTable the base table to be validated + * @throws IllegalArgumentException thrown if the input base table is invalid. + */ + protected abstract void validateCatalogBaseTable(CatalogBaseTable catalogBaseTable) Review comment: This would go against the previous suggestion you made: > Similar to createTable(), I don't see we need to provide implementations for alterTable() in each subclass because I don't really see much difference. If validation is different, then we can define a new interface in the base and have each subclass implement it. ---------------------------------------------------------------- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: us...@infra.apache.org With regards, Apache Git Services