Package org.apache.iceberg.view

Interface Views

All Known Implementing Classes:

BaseMetastoreViews, HadoopViews, NessieExtCatalog, NessieViewCatalog

public interface Views

Generic interface for creating and loading a view implementation.

The 'viewIdentifier' field should be interpreted by the underlying implementation (e.g. catalog.database.view_name)

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
void	create(String viewIdentifier, ViewDefinition viewDefinition, Map<String,String> properties)	Create a view without replacing any existing view.
void	drop(String viewIdentifier)	Drops a view.
View	load(String viewIdentifier)	Loads a view by name.
ViewDefinition	loadDefinition(String viewIdentifier)	Loads a view by name.
default void	rename(String oldIdentifier, String newIdentifier)	Renames a view.
void	replace(String viewIdentifier, ViewDefinition viewDefinition, Map<String,String> properties)	Replaces a view.

Method Detail

create

void create(String viewIdentifier,
            ViewDefinition viewDefinition,
            Map<String,String> properties)

Create a view without replacing any existing view.

Parameters:

viewIdentifier - view name or location

viewDefinition - SQL metadata of the view

properties - Version property genie-id of the operation, as well as table properties such as owner, table type, common view flag etc.

replace

void replace(String viewIdentifier,
             ViewDefinition viewDefinition,
             Map<String,String> properties)

Replaces a view.

Parameters:

viewIdentifier - view name or location

viewDefinition - SQL metadata of the view

properties - Version property genie-id of the operation, as well as table properties such as owner, table type, common view flag etc.

load

View load(String viewIdentifier)

Loads a view by name.

Parameters:

viewIdentifier - view name or location

Returns:

All the metadata of the view

loadDefinition

ViewDefinition loadDefinition(String viewIdentifier)

Loads a view by name.

Parameters:

viewIdentifier - view name or location

Returns:

SQL metadata of the view

drop

void drop(String viewIdentifier)

Drops a view.

Parameters:

viewIdentifier - view name or location

rename

default void rename(String oldIdentifier,
                    String newIdentifier)

Renames a view.

Parameters:

oldIdentifier - the view identifier of the existing view to rename

newIdentifier - the new view identifier of the view