Package org.apache.iceberg.catalog

Interface ViewCatalog

All Known Implementing Classes:
BaseMetastoreViewCatalog, BaseViewSessionCatalog.AsViewCatalog, HiveCatalog, InMemoryCatalog, JdbcCatalog, NessieCatalog, RESTCatalog
public interface ViewCatalog
A Catalog API for view create, drop, and load operations.

  • Method Details

    • name

      String name()
      Return the name for this catalog.
      Returns:
      this catalog's name

    • listViews

      List<TableIdentifier> listViews(Namespace namespace)
      Return all the identifiers under this namespace.
      Parameters:
      namespace - a namespace
      Returns:
      a list of identifiers for views
      Throws:
      NoSuchNamespaceException - if the namespace is not found

    • loadView

      View loadView(TableIdentifier identifier)
      Load a view.
      Parameters:
      identifier - a view identifier
      Returns:
      instance of View implementation referred by the identifier
      Throws:
      NoSuchViewException - if the view does not exist

    • viewExists

      default boolean viewExists(TableIdentifier identifier)
      Check whether view exists.
      Parameters:
      identifier - a view identifier
      Returns:
      true if the view exists, false otherwise

    • buildView

      ViewBuilder buildView(TableIdentifier identifier)
      Instantiate a builder to create or replace a SQL view.
      Parameters:
      identifier - a view identifier
      Returns:
      a view builder

    • dropView

      boolean dropView(TableIdentifier identifier)
      Drop a view.
      Parameters:
      identifier - a view identifier
      Returns:
      true if the view was dropped, false if the view did not exist

    • renameView

      void renameView(TableIdentifier from, TableIdentifier to)
      Rename a view.
      Parameters:
      from - identifier of the view to rename
      to - new view identifier
      Throws:
      NoSuchViewException - if the "from" view does not exist
      AlreadyExistsException - if the "to" view already exists
      NoSuchNamespaceException - if the "to" namespace doesn't exist

    • invalidateView

      default void invalidateView(TableIdentifier identifier)
      Invalidate cached view metadata from current catalog.

      If the view is already loaded or cached, drop cached data. If the view does not exist or is not cached, do nothing.

      Parameters:
      identifier - a view identifier

    • initialize

      default void initialize(String name, Map<String,String> properties)
      Initialize a view catalog given a custom name and a map of catalog properties.

      A custom view catalog implementation must have a no-arg constructor. A compute engine like Spark or Flink will first initialize the catalog without any arguments, and then call this method to complete catalog initialization with properties passed into the engine.

      Parameters:
      name - a custom name for the catalog
      properties - catalog properties