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_r283467632
########## File path: flink-connectors/flink-connector-hive/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/table/catalog/hive/HiveCatalogBase.java ########## @@ -89,6 +96,34 @@ private static IMetaStoreClient getMetastoreClient(HiveConf hiveConf) { } } + // ------ APIs ------ + + /** + * Validate input base table. + * + * @param catalogBaseTable the base table to be validated + * @throws CatalogException thrown if the input base table is invalid. + */ + protected abstract void validateCatalogBaseTable(CatalogBaseTable catalogBaseTable) + throws CatalogException; + + /** + * Create a CatalogBaseTable from a Hive table. + * + * @param hiveTable a Hive table + * @return a CatalogBaseTable + */ + protected abstract CatalogBaseTable createCatalogBaseTable(Table hiveTable); Review comment: This method will return either a CatalogTable or CatalogView, that's why it's named "createCatalogBaseTable() " and "createCatalogTable()" may be a bit misleading ---------------------------------------------------------------- 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